SJTU-UoS joint course of Data Protection for Chief Data Officer was launched
A few month ago, a team of professors and researchers from the cyber security group and law school of University of Southampton (UoS) went to Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU) to give a one-week course. The course was organised by Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), which is a world-class institution of research and advanced learning in finance and management established at SJTU in April 2009. The topic of the program, mooted and designed by organisers from both parties, was data protection with a focus on legal and cyber security perspectives for Chief Data Officers (CDOs).
On May 25, 2018, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulations (the GDPR), known as the most stringent data protection law in the history of the European Union, came into effect.
Regardless of whether the data processing is carried out in the EU, the process may still be subject to the GDPR, which will inevitably require every company and individual dealing with the EU data to study the GDPR seriously.
The radius of business radiation of companies spreads the jurisdiction of GDPR globally. Meanwhile, “Enterprise Data Governance” was introduced as a new management concept, and this is why CDO (Chief Data Officer) has entered the corporate executive team. The internal control mechanism of large enterprises is increasingly oriented towards a unified privacy protection strategy. For example, Apple and Facebook have begun to implement the global unified implementation of the GDPR. How to understand the essence of GDPR and put it into practice? How to think about data security from the information security perspective?
Against this backdrop, this course aims for CDOs and information security officers from both government and enterprise. The content varies from shallow to deep, which has six modules including “privacy and anonymity”, “cross-border data flow”, “network security”, “competition and finance”, “financial technology and blockchain”, “data protection compliance”. Through the combination of theory and practice, this program intends to empower the senior management of the enterprise to master the principles of data protection and its supervision, thus promoting the development of the enterprise.
UoS Instructors
Mu Yang (University of Greenwich)
Runshan Hu
SJTU Instructors
Matias Aranguiz
The Classes
The classes were a mix of computer science, law, and finance. People from various backgrounds sat together and discussed about the future of data privacy, cyber security, and FinTech etc. It is illuminating to witness some cyber security principles being evaluated divergently based on different values from legal and financial values, and also to see similar problems being described in disparate terms when starting from distinct perspectives.
For the first time over, the partnership between UoS and SJTU spanned multiple departments including UoS’s law school and the cyber security group (ECS school) and SJTU’s school of finance and cybersecurity.
We believe a multi-disciplinary approach via international lens is crucial to derive credible informed views, productive and fruitful collaborations.
Also, this is consistent with cyber security group’s focus on the multi-disciplinary approach when doing research in UoS.
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