Data Privacy: Safeguards and Security Training Course

Master the safeguards and daily habits needed to protect sensitive data, reduce security risks, and maintain organizational trust.

Training Objectives

• Distinguish between data privacy and data security responsibilities
• Identify sensitive information in digital and physical formats
• Apply administrative, technical, and physical safeguards
• Recognize common behaviors that can contribute to data breaches
• Follow proper procedures for reporting security concerns
• Apply data security practices when working remotely, alone, or in shared spaces

Course Overview

Protecting sensitive information is a responsibility shared across an organization. Employees routinely handle personal, financial, and business information through email, documents, computer systems, and everyday workplace interactions. Small lapses, such as leaving a screen unlocked or sharing information with an unauthorized person, can create significant privacy and security risks.

This course explains the important distinction between data privacy and data security. Participants learn who should have access to information, why access matters, and how sensitive data can be exposed through both digital and physical environments. The training also introduces key principles associated with U.S. privacy and data security requirements, including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) Safeguards Rule, which calls for administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect covered customer information.

Participants explore three important areas of protection: administrative, technical, and physical safeguards. Topics include workplace policies, access controls, multi-factor authentication, secure handling of information, clear-desk practices, and responsible use of systems and devices. The course also examines how convenience, pressure, and seemingly harmless workplace behaviors can create opportunities for unauthorized access or disclosure.

The training emphasizes practical habits employees can use every day, including protecting information while working remotely or in shared spaces and knowing when and how to report a potential security concern. It is designed for professionals who handle sensitive personal, customer, financial, or business information and need a practical understanding of their role in protecting that information.

This program is available with Spanish and French closed captions.

Key Benefits

• Understand the difference between data privacy and data security
• Recognize sensitive information in digital and physical environments
• Learn the three types of safeguards used to protect information
• Identify everyday behaviors that can create security vulnerabilities
• Improve secure data-handling practices in the workplace
• Understand the importance of access controls and authentication
• Apply safer practices when working remotely or in shared spaces
• Know how to respond to and report potential security concerns
• Support a stronger organizational culture of privacy and security

Course Details

• Course Length: 8 minutes
• Languages: EN / ES / FR
• Progress Tracking: Included
• Mobile Compatible: Yes
• Participant Guide: Downloadable
• Access: Streaming video on-demand included with license
• LMS Compatibility: Compatible with your LMS or accessible via hosted LMS platform
• Year Produced: 2026
• SKU: AT245