Security and ethical issues in IT

Arber Hoxhallari

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Overview

• Ethical responsibility

• Computer crime

• Privacy issues

 • Health issues

 • Other issues

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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.

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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.

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Privacy issues

• Accessing individuals’ private e-mail conversations and computer records

• Always “knowing” people’s location

• Computer matching

• Unauthorized personal files

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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

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Other challenges

• Employment Challenges.

• Computer Monitoring

• Challenges in Working Conditions

• Challenges to Individuality

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Security Management ToolsInternetworked Security defense

• Encryption

• Firewalls

• e – mail monitoring

• Virus protection

Other Security measures

• Passwords

• Backup files

• Biometric Security

• Computer failures control

• Disaster recovery

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Thank You !

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