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Privacy Engineer

Nanodegree Program

The Privacy Engineer Nanodegree program will prepare you to create technical solutions and implement privacy principles by integrating Privacy-by-Design into product development, data infrastructure, and software release lifecycles. By the end of this program, you will be able to use privacy by design to create solutions that ensure the correct implementation of privacy policies, evaluate privacy compliance risks throughout the data lifecycle, recommend mechanisms to address risks, and execute technical controls that reduce risk and improve data protection.

The Privacy Engineer Nanodegree program will prepare you to create technical solutions and implement privacy principles by integrating Privacy-by-Design into product development, data infrastructure, and software release lifecycles. By the end of this program, you will be able to use privacy by design to create solutions that ensure the correct implementation of privacy policies, evaluate privacy compliance risks throughout the data lifecycle, recommend mechanisms to address risks, and execute technical controls that reduce risk and improve data protection.

Intermediate

2 months

Real-world Projects

Completion Certificate

Last Updated June 30, 2022

Skills you'll learn:
Sensitive data tracking • Data privacy fundamentals • Data anonymization • Privacy risk assessment
Prerequisites:
Basic cybersecurity implementation • Basic computer programming

Courses In This Program

Course 1 15 minutes

Welcome to the Privacy Engineer Nanodegree Program

Welcome to the Privacy Engineer Nanodegree Program, let's get started!

Course 2 4 weeks

Implementing Privacy in Software Applications

This course is designed with two types of people in mind: 1) Engineers who hadn't really delved into privacy engineering, and 2) those who have only basic technical skills, but a strong interest in privacy engineering. We learn how the basic principles that privacy engineers follow when evaluating and building software. We'll look at some common legal requirements that privacy engineers must reckon with in many parts of the world and how to implement those requirements for your application or platform. As we go over privacy engineering for compliance, we'll learn that an essential step is to first identify, then track or catalog sensitive data within our system. And finally, we will learn how to manage and protect data using data minimization.

Course 3 4 weeks

Organizational Privacy Engineering

Privacy engineering isn’t all technical—it requires a culture of privacy to be built into organizations. This course outlines the fundamentals of privacy that are critical to implement in an organization. It is important to understand the privacy landscape, the techniques and controls that are available, and proper privacy assessment.

Course 4 10 minutes

Congratulations!

Congratulations on finishing your program!

Taught By The Best

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Mihir Patil

Technical Lead, Privacy & Civil Liberties Engineering

Mihir has worked with customers like the World Food Programme, multinational pharmaceutical and telecommunications companies, as well as organizations in the U.S. defense space to implement technical solutions for protecting individual liberties.

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Richard Phung

INFORMATION SECURITY ANALYST

Richard is an SSCP, CISSP, and CIPP/US with over a decade of enterprise systems administration experience, working with businesses to meet the demands of a continually evolving threat landscape. Richard holds a BA in Psychology from Hendrix College and a Master's of Education from Lesley University.

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Dante Avery

Director of Security

Dante Avery is a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft, where he leads the Security, Privacy and Compliance team for Yammer. He formerly worked as an Application Security Engineer at Scottrade, where he performed security assessments. He has a Bachelor in Computer Science from University of Missouri - St. Louis.

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