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Introductory course in Privacy and IT Security

This course is mandatory for all faculty and staff at UiO.

The course is an introduction to important tools for handling information securely at the University of Oslo. The course aims to ensure that all employees and students receive basic training in privacy and IT security, thereby preventing privacy violations and breaches of information security.

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Duration: 30 min

Language: English

Course type: E-learning course

Target group: Faculty and staff 

Prerequisites: None

Content:

  • Privacy – what is it and why is it important?
  • Typical privacy incidents and what to do if things go wrong
  • IT security – what are we afraid of?
  • How to identify phishing and scam emails
  • Simple security rules everyone can follow
  • Tools to help you work with privacy and IT security

About the course: 

This course is mandatory for all faculty and staff at UiO.

Employees and students at UiO are on the front line when it comes to protecting the university’s information assets against daily and increasingly sophisticated attack attempts. This course is tailored to provide you, one of our most valuable resources, with important tools to protect our research data and personal information.

The main goal of the course is to equip you with the essential tools to handle personal data in a secure and lawful manner, and how to protect our digital resources from malicious actors.

The basic course does not replace existing privacy course offerings at UiO. You should also take relevant advanced courses in privacy, depending on your role. 

Use the buttons on the page to sign up and take the course. It takes about half an hour from the time you register until the course becomes available to you.

Do you have suggestions or feedback about the course? These can be submitted in the web form after you have completed the course. 

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Once you have completed the final quiz, it will be automatically recorded that you have finished the course.