We hear all the time that an E-Commerce site gets hacked and credit card numbers and other personal customer information is stolen. What is your liability for such a breach of security if it happens to you? Even if not operating on the web, Internet based intrusions can disrupt any business or organization. Is the solution technology or people based? What does everyone in your company need to know that can create a coordinated human firewall against such vulnerabilities? This course will take a legal liability look, a preventative look, and a recovery mode look at securing your data and employing effective computer and network security methods to eliminate or reduce liability in case the unthinkable happens.

Email and Internet use by employees is a huge liability if misused. Protect your corporate resources, corporate information, and the information of your customers and associates by formulating a professional electronic mail policy and electronic mail guidelines. What about the liability if an employee accidentally or a former employee intentionally opens a virus on your network? These answers and more will be clear after this powerful and important session.

Do your employees have an reasonable expectation of privacy? Do you want to understand how the various constitutional, common law and statutory rules work together when you want to monitor your employees communications at work? Does it vary by State and national jurisdiction? Privacy on the Internet is a problem that must be addressed by companies and any organization with an online presence. Even those companies with a policy that is more than 2 years old needs to learn the latest legal developments in this area.

This Corporate Education course takes a wide and hard hitting look at what your organization presents to the public, your customers, and anyone you deal with on your site or via email. Some of the key issues extrapolated on include:

• Would a disclaimer protect a company from threats issued by their employees using company e-mail?
• Internal and/or external disclaimer - which are more effective and in what situations?
• Department e-mail disclaimers - are they good enough?
• How to create specific disclaimers?
• Disadvantages of using email disclaimers

What is a legal audit? In short, it is a thorough review of all aspects of a company's website. This course will go through all the potential liabilities that lurk on your site, and make recommendations for selecting the best vendors to conduct a legal audit. The time to act proactively is before there is trouble. The information in this course will arm your enterprise with the tools needed to reduce liability and take the next step and having a legal audit conducted.

Are you as an employer affected by internet copyright issues? The answer is "yes"! There are presumptions that if you are posting information on your site, be it text, graphics, or multimedia, you have the proper authorization to use it. Do you know where your web developer got those nice graphics from? How about the informative text? What about if someone posts information to your site, are you liable if it is copyrighted? Internet copyright issues are at the forefront of liability concerns and there is a acute need to inform and educate everyone responsible for creating web content, design, and even those who send emails.

For the 1999 holiday season, The U.S. Federal Trade Commission collected more than $1.5 million in fines from online retailers for violation of consumer protection rules regarding warranties, shipping claims and rebates.

What claims can you make on your site in order to boost sales? What about the laws applying to customers outside the U.S. market? What is the best way to ensure compliance as well as robust sales?