CIPT: Privacy in Technology training
IAPP’s globally renowned Privacy in Technology training explains why IT departments need to consider privacy and the common challenges enterprises face when factoring privacy and data protection into their products and services. As the principal training for the ANAB-accredited CIPT certification, this course provides the knowledge to identify privacy risks and the skills to apply technical strategies to mitigate risk.
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Why train?
Data privacy regulations worldwide require building privacy protections into products and services to mitigate privacy risk throughout the software and systems development life cycles.
Who should train?
Software developers, information security professionals, data architects, privacy engineers, and network and cloud engineers responsible for incorporating privacy controls into technology operations and product development and those pursuing CIPT certification.
Course curriculum
CIPT training teaches technology and data professionals how to understand and integrate strategies and techniques to minimize privacy risks, including privacy-by-design principles, threats from AI, location tracking and more. See the course outline for more details on each learning module.
- Apply privacy risk models and frameworks.
- Employ value-sensitive design principles in product development.
- Understand the data life cycle.
- Comprehend the fundamentals of privacy-related technology.
- Detail the privacy-technology relationship.
- Understand the technologist’s data protection responsibilities.
- Employ privacy-by-design principles.
- Recognize privacy threats and violations in the data life cycle.
- Discover privacy risks associated with intrusions, decisional-interference and self-representation.
- Secure software.
- Apply privacy-enhancing technologies and strategies.
- Identify privacy objectives.
- Spot privacy risks in software.
- Apply privacy-by-design patterns.
- Identify privacy risks of automated decision-making.
- Understand privacy impacts of tracking and surveillance.
- Learn data protection concerns of anthropomorphism, ubiquitous computing and mobile social computing.
Pick your training format
The IAPP provides flexible and engaging learning experiences. Choose from online, live online, in-person and group learning environments.
Online
Learn at your own pace with training modules that present content from highly experienced instructors through video, audio, text and interactive quizzes.
Live online
Train from any location through a virtual classroom on your computer and experience the same real-time exchange of ideas of a physical environment.
In-person
Experience traditional, in-person learning sessions led by an industry thought leader, and network with industry peers.
Group
Address your organization's digital responsibility needs with IAPP group training, delivered on-site and at your convenience.
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Complement your training
Complete your CIPT training experience with the following resources.
Training textbook
Get the official textbook for the CIPT program.
Practice exam
Test your knowledge with 90 practice questions.
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