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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:2 / 3
Course supervisor:Uldis Ķinis
Study type:Full time
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Juridical Science; Civil and Military Defense; Management Science
Language:Latvian
Branch of science:Law

Objective

To offer students an opportunity to gain understanding and skills: on economic and financial cyber crime in the field of criminal law and criminal proceedings, on information system security incident management and information security risks analysis in resolution of organisational and legal matters, to promote in-depth understanding of drafting and management of regulatory enactments related to information security systems.

Prerequisites

In management science, economics, finance and law at basic level.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

Students will be guided by laws and regulations and will be able to independently select legal provisions governing the level of national and international law related to criminal and cyber-security relations and understand the nature of their application. Students will be able to apply these norms in practice by identifying the elements of the specific offenses and their separation from others. Students will also acquire skills in organizing information technology security incident processing and security risk analysis and developing necessary documents in the field of cyber security.

Skills

Students are able to analyze and evaluate socio-economic legal processes creatively and constructively, debate and experiment on the results achieved, in support of their views, to create creative solutions for the detection, prevention, and investigation of economic crimes at the national and international levels. Students are able to identify and formulate problems, find causation, and offer concrete solutions in the organization and implementation of cybersecurity policies.

Competence

The ability to identify cybercrimes in the economic and financial fields, the ability to use the knowledge and skills acquired in the course for professional and personal development. The ability to offer not only formal solutions to the challenges of economic cybercrime and cyber security, but the ability to find creative solutions that would serve the values of a rule of law and public interest in detecting, preventing, and investigating economic cybercrimes and organizing cyber-security policy, both nationally and internationally.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2024, Autumn semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Economic security, EDMz 2Master’sLimited choice