Participants will gain a solid foundation in privacy principles, global data protection frameworks, and the role of the technologist in supporting compliance and governance. The course explores how privacy intersects with information security, risk management, and software development practices, enabling learners to translate regulatory requirements into practical technical controls.
This course includes an exam voucher.
CIPT course includes:
Exam Voucher
Textbook: Privacy Program Management: Tools for Managing Privacy Within Your Organization
Participant Guide
Sample Questions
1 Year IAPP Membership
Updated 19/6/2026
Module 1: Foundational Principles of Privacy in Technology
Summarizes the foundational elements for embedding privacy in technology through privacy by design and value-sensitive design. Reviews the data life cycle and common privacy risk models and frameworks.
Module 2: Role of the Technology Professional in Privacy
Reviews the fundamentals of privacy as they relate to the privacy technologist. Describes the privacy technologist’s role in ensuring compliance with privacy requirements and meeting stakeholder privacy expectations. Explores the relationship between privacy and security.
Module 3: Privacy Threats and Violations
Identifies inherent risks throughout the data life cycle stages and explores how software security helps mitigate privacy threats. Examines the impacts that behavioral advertising, cyberbullying and social engineering have on privacy within the technological environment.
Module 4: Technical Measures and Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
Outlines the strategies and techniques for enhancing privacy throughout the data life cycle, including identity and access management; authentication, encryption and aggregation; and personal information collection and use.
Module 5: Privacy-by-Design Methodology
Illustrates the process and methodology of the PbD model. Explores practices to ensure ongoing vigilance when implementing PbD.
Module 6: Privacy Engineering
Explores the role of privacy engineering within an organization, including the objectives of privacy engineering, privacy-design patterns and software-privacy risks.
Module 7: Technology Challenges for Privacy
Examines the unique challenges that come from online privacy issues, including automated decision-making, tracking and surveillance technologies, anthropomorphism, ubiquitous computing and mobile social computing.
While there are no prerequisites, However, participants are recommended to have:
Individuals who need an understanding of the principles of information privacy in technology and those interested in pursuing CIPT certification.
NOK 20.000
