Boston College Continuing Education, in collaboration with Kevin Powers, Director of the M.S. in Cybersecurity Policy and Governance at Boston College, is launching two new, online, non-credit certificate programs in the Spring of 2019:
- Cybersecurity Strategy Certificate
- Data Privacy: GDPR & HIPAA Certificate
Please note: Some of the courses will be eligible for Continuing Legal Education (CLE) and Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credit. See course details, when released, for more information.
Who should attend: attorneys, paralegals, accountants, business and government executives, managers and employees, human resources professionals, compliance and privacy officers, IT and project managers, and individuals seeking knowledge of cybersecurity.
Data Privacy: GDPR & HIPAA Certificate
The Data Privacy: GDPR & HIPAA Certificate provides you with advanced knowledge in the major privacy and data protection laws and regulations in the U.S. and globally, including health care privacy and security laws (i.e., HIPAA / HITECH) and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (e.g., policy and applicability, fundamental rights of data subjects, corporate requirements and obligations, breach notification rules, and fines and penalties). The certificate consists of five courses (90 minutes in length). You may complete the courses in any order you choose and at your own pace. There is no obligation to complete the certificate; rather, you may take any course(s) without committing to completing the certificate.
Please note: Some of the courses will be eligible for Continuing Legal Education (CLE) and Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credit. See course details, when released, for more information.
Who should attend: attorneys, paralegals, accountants, business and government executives, managers and employees, human resources professionals, compliance and privacy officers, IT and project managers, health care professionals, and individuals seeking knowledge of U.S., EU, and health care privacy and data protection laws.
Kevin R. Powers, J.D., Director, M.S. in Cybersecurity Policy and Governance, Assistant Professor of the Practice, Carroll School of Management.
Kevin Powers is the founding Director for the MS in Cybersecurity Policy and Governance Program at Boston College, and an Assistant Professor of the Practice in Boston College’s Carroll School of Management’s Business Law and Society Department. With a combined 20 years of law enforcement, military, national security, business, higher education, and teaching experience, he has worked as an analyst and an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of Defense, law firms in Boston and Washington, D.C., and as the General Counsel for an international software company based in Seattle, Washington. Along with his teaching at Boston College, Kevin is a Research Affiliate at the MIT Sloan School of Management and he has taught courses at the U.S. Naval Justice School and the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was also the Deputy General Counsel to the Superintendent. From 2016-2017, he was the Panel Lead for the Collegiate Working Group for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE). Kevin also serves as a Board Member for the Boston College Law School Business Advisory Council, a Regional Bank, and an International Software Company. Kevin regularly provides expert commentary regarding cybersecurity and national security issues for varying local, national, and international media outlets.