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CISSP Legal, Regulations, Investigation and Compliance Acronyms

Domain 9, Legal, Regulations, Investigation and Compliance

The goal is not to turn you into legal or law enforcement, but to help you effectively interface with them.

Remember, you have no legal training (even if you actually do, pretend you do not for the exam). If there is a legal related question and one of the answers is something like “I have no legal training," "consult consul” or “consult someone with the appropriate expertise” or similar, seriously consider that answer.

Ethics are also covered in this domain, and on ethics questions pick the most conservative approach and answer.

UN – The United Nations.

MLAT – Mutual Legal Assistant Treaties involve law enforcement in different countries working together to combat crimes such as money laundering, cyber crime, and more.

BSA – Business Software Alliance, an industry group whose primary purpose is to prevent copyright infringement of software produced by its members. Software piracy is a big issue, but they are controversial because of some of their tactics, including their “Bust Your Boss!” campaign and others which pay disgruntled employees up to $200,000 to report alleged software piracy.

IP – Intellectual Property. Yes, it also stands for something else but in context there is rarely any confusion.

HIPAA – Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which addresses the security and privacy of health care data.

IAB – Internet Activities Board. The IAB has a code of ethics published as RFC 1087 and describes 5 unethical and unacceptable types of activities.

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