This document discusses several security and ethical issues in information technology. It covers ethical responsibility in business and technology use, defines computer crimes such as unauthorized access and hacking. It also discusses privacy issues around accessing private data and monitoring individuals. Health issues from heavy computer use like eye strain and radiation are mentioned. Other challenges discussed include monitoring of employees, working conditions, and threats to individuality. The document concludes by outlining some security management tools to address these issues like encryption, firewalls, virus protection, and disaster recovery plans.
3. Ethical responsibility
• Business ethics - is concerned with the
numerous ethical questions that managers must confront
as part of their daily business decision-making.
• Technology ethics - This ethical dimension
deals specifically with the ethics of the use of
technology.
• Ethical Guidelines - Acting with integrity,
Increasing your professional competence, Setting high
standards of personal performance, Accepting
responsibility for your work, Advancing the health,
privacy, and general welfare of the public.
4. Computer crime
The Association of Information Technology
Professionals defines computer crime as including:
• The unauthorized use, access, modification, and
destruction of hardware, software, data, or network
resources.
• The unauthorized release of information.
• The unauthorized copying of software.
• Denying an end user access to his or her own hardware,
software, data, or network resources.
• Using or conspiring to use computer or network resources
to illegally obtain information or tangible property.
5. Privacy issues
• Accessing individuals’ private e-
mail conversations and computer
records
• Always “knowing” people’s
location
• Computer matching
• Unauthorized personal files
6. Health issues
The use of IT in the workplace raises a variety of
health issues. Heavy use of computers is reportedly
causing health problems such as:
• Job stress
• Damaged arm and neck muscles
• Eye strain
• Radiation exposure
• Death by computer-caused accidents