From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 1 Security and Risk Management
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Computer crimes
From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 1 Security and Risk Management
Computer crimes
- [Instructor] While most of the laws related to information security fall into the categories of civil and administrative law, occasionally we cross paths with criminal law. Cases of information theft, system intrusion, identity theft, and other crimes are harmful to society and may trigger criminal sanctions. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act or CFAA is a criminal law that makes it a federal offense to engage in many types of hacking activity. Specifically, the CFAA prohibits unauthorized access to any computer system that is engaged in interstate commerce, and it prohibits the creation of malicious code that might cause damage to a computer system. Now, there are many nuances to this law, but the bottom line is that CFAA makes hacking a criminal offense punishable by fines and/or imprisonment. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act, ECPA, restricts the government interception of communications and stored information.…
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