Data Protection Laws
Cybersecurity Threats
Definitions
Policies
100

This regulation requires businesses to protect the personal data and privacy of EU citizens for transactions that occur within EU member states.

What is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?

100

This type of malware locks or encrypts the victim's data, demanding a ransom to restore access.

What is ransomware?

100

This acronym refers to data that allows you to directly or indirectly identity someone.  

What is PII?

100

This policy is meant to help us identify and manage a personal information data breach in a consistent and effective manner.

What is our Data Breach Policy?

200

This Canadian act gives residents the right to know what personal data is being collected about them and to whom it is being disclosed.

Q: What is the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)?


200

This deceptive attempt to collect personal, financial, or other sensitive information by pretending to be a trustworthy entity in digital communication is known as what?

What is phishing.

200

This term is used to refer to a situation where personal data is disclosed or accessed without consent.

What is a Data Breach?

200

This document what employees are required to do in order to protect personal data against loss or unlawful processing.

What is the Information Security Policy?

300

Name one of the eight privacy rights that you have under the GDPR and PIPEDA?

What is __...
The right to be informed?
The right to access?
The right to rectification?
The right to erasure?
The right to restrict processing?
The right to data portability?
The right to object?
The right to not be profiled?

300

This term refers to the psychological manipulation of people into divulging PII.

What is Social Engineering?

300

This term refers to the process of protecting information by scrambling it in such a way that only the parties who have the key to unscramble it can access it.

What is Encryption?

300

What policy lets people know how we collect, process, delete, and share their personal information.

What is the Privacy Policy?

400

Children in Canada cannot create a user account without parental consent if they are under this age.

What is 12 years old?

400
This is the most common way that someone gains access to PII.

What are weak passwords?

400

This type of network secures your internet connection and protects your online identity by hiding your IP address and encrypting your connection.

What is a Virtual Privacy Network (VPN)?

400

This policy outlines the rules that people must follow if they want to use our platform.

What is the Terms of Use?