Non-Public Information: Carefully Handling a Critical Business Resource (Core)
12 min! Run Time
Employees
only
of Completion
What you'll learn
Skills covered in this course
Description
Non-public business information is a vital resource, and how employees handle it decides whether that asset stays protected. This core course sets the responsibility out plainly.
What this course covers:
- What counts as non-public information, including intellectual property
- Sensitive and confidential material entrusted by customers or partners
- How to identify, use and safeguard this critical business resource
- Sharing non-public information properly and with the right people
A twelve-minute course for employees who handle confidential company, customer or third-party information in their work.
System Requirements
See System Requirements in the Coggno Knowledge Base
Author
Non-Public Information: Carefully Handling a Critical Business Resource (Core)
Frequently Asked Questions
This is a twelve-minute course, built for employees who handle confidential company, customer or third-party information in their work and need a quick but clear grounding in the responsibility that comes with it. Its short length is meant to fit easily into a busy workday without requiring a longer time commitment.
The course covers what counts as non-public information, including intellectual property as well as sensitive and confidential material entrusted by customers or partners, giving learners a broad but concrete working definition. This definition sets the scope for the rest of the course's guidance on identifying and safeguarding this resource.
Yes, it covers how to identify, use and safeguard this critical business resource, walking through the practical steps involved in keeping non-public information protected once it has been correctly recognized. These steps connect the course's definition of non-public information to concrete daily safeguarding behavior.
The course covers sharing non-public information properly and with the right people, addressing the fact that this information sometimes needs to be shared rather than only ever kept fully locked away. This balances the course's earlier focus on protection with guidance on when and how sharing is appropriate.
It sets the responsibility out plainly: how employees handle non-public business information decides whether that critical asset stays protected, making individual judgment central to the course's overall message throughout. This framing runs through the course's twelve-minute treatment of identification, use and safeguarding of information.
Non-public business information serves as a vital resource, and its proper use helps to safeguard this important asset. This information can involve, for example, certain intellectual property, personal information, and sensitive, confidential information. It may be entrusted with an organization by a customer, business partner, or other third party. How employees identify, use, safeguard, and properly share non-public information serves as a critical responsibility.
Course Length: 12 Minutes