Date/Time
1/25/2027
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Central
Course Registration
Member: $119.00
Non-Member: $139.00
Credits
2 Credits
Event Type(s)
Webinars
Event Description
This presentation explores modern confidentiality, data security, and AI-related professional obligations in an increasingly hostile and deceptive threat environment. It explains how evolving risks such as AI-generated phishing, account takeovers, deepfakes, and inadvertent data sharing intersect with long-standing ethical duties, emphasizing that competence today includes understanding both the benefits and risks of technology. Through real-world examples and practical guidance, the session reinforces core principles like the strategic pause, high-confidence verification, responsible use of generative AI, proper data storage, and personal accountability, concluding that reasonable precautions remain both expected and achievable even as tactics and technologies change.

Objectives:
  • Identify modern confidentiality, data security, and technology-competence obligations in today’s professional environment
  • Recognize and respond to evolving social engineering threats, including AI-generated phishing, account takeovers, and deepfakes
  • Apply verification, judgment, and supervision principles to the responsible use of generative AI tools
  • Implement practical safeguards for protecting client and company data across work, travel, and personal technology use

Presenters:
Mark McCreary, CIPP/US

Field of Study:
Information Technology (2)

Major Topics:
  • Evolving privacy, data security, and professional-responsibility obligations in a rapidly changing threat landscape
  • Modern social engineering risks, including AI-generated phishing, account takeovers, QR code scams, and deepfakes
  • Responsible use of generative AI, emphasizing supervision, judgment, verification, and client expectations
  • Practical safeguards for protecting data, devices, and confidentiality at work, at home, and while traveling
Location
Webinar
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