IAPP Foundations of Privacy and Data Protection

This accelerated IAPP Foundations of Privacy and Data Protection course, is a comprehensive training course for quickly teaching privacy fundamentals to organizations and individuals.

Foundations’ expert-authored curriculum details privacy’s legal and regulatory frameworks. It describes common operational processes and illustrates privacy at work through case studies and real-world examples. Foundations also teaches a common vocabulary that helps communicate privacy issues clearly between professionals and throughout organizations.

At the end of this course, you’ll achieve your IAPP Foundations of Privacy and Data Protection certification. Through Firebrand’s Lecture | Lab | Review methodology, you’ll get certified at twice the speed of the traditional training and get access to courseware, learn from certified instructors, and train in a distraction-free environment.

Audience

This course is ideal for:

• Professionals considering privacy as a career.
• Foundations is excellent preparation for advanced IAPP training and certification testing.

IAPP-certified instructors

Firebrand instructors are fully IAPP-certified and bring a wealth of real-world experience to enrich the course content with relevant and useful examples.

IAPP membership

Delegates training with Firebrand for the first time receive a 12-month membership with IAPP as part of their course package. Delegates whose membership has expired have to renew it separately for $275 through the IAPP website. Alternatively, delegates can pay a Certification Maintenance fee (24 months) of $250; this preserves the certification but provides no membership privileges.

Module 1: Key Privacy Concepts:
Introduces learners to the fundamental roles and concepts of privacy and data protection to help professionals charged with integrating sophisticated information management practices to safeguard personal data, earn customer and stakeholder trust, and meet the business and operational needs of their organizations.

Module 2: Fair Information Practices (FIPs):

Defines the FIPs, explores their origins, examines how they relate to one another to create a framework of data protection, and helps learners interpret them to solve data protection problems in regular work activity.

Module 3: The Data Life Cycle:

Helps learners recognize each phase of the data life cycle, understand how each ties to relevant stakeholder needs and expectations, and identify gaps and propose improvements in data life cycle governance within their professional environments.

Module 4: Models for Data Protection Legislation:

Examines the models for data protection, key differences between the main models, and their comparative advantages and disadvantages.

Module 5: Major Privacy and Data Protection Laws:

Provides an overview of major privacy and data protection laws around the world to help learners better understand the evolving data protection landscape and its current state.

Module 6: Case Studies:

Offers real-world examples of companies accused of failing to comply with data protection provisions, as well as those that worked effectively with regulators to protect personal data.

Module 7: Emerging Topics:

Investigates key emerging topics related to data protection, defines a consistent methodology for examining and reacting to an emerging issue, and explores how to identify relevant components of a new topic, assess it and apply privacy principles.

At the end of this accelerated course, gain your IAPP Foundations of Privacy and Data Protection certification.

There are no prerequisites for this accelerated course.

Your accelerated course includes:

• Accommodation *
• Meals, unlimited snacks, beverages, tea and coffee *
• On-site exams **
• Exam vouchers **
• Practice tests **
• Certification Guarantee ***
• Courseware
• Up-to 12 hours of instructor-led training each day
• 24-hour lab access
• Digital courseware **

* For residential training only. Accommodation is included from the night before the course starts. This doesn't apply for online courses.
** Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts.
*** Pass first time or train again free as many times as it takes, unlimited for 1 year. Just pay for accommodation, exams, and incidental costs.