Chapter 3 Information System
CHAPTER 3
Describe the major ethical issues related to information technology and identify situations in which they occur.
Utilitarian approach. This action provides most goods benefit or least harm. This action usually happens in corporate action. The affected parties for example customers, employees, share holder and the community. CEO choose to promote ‘go green campaign’ so that this campaign will create an awareness through the staff about the importance of environment.
Rights approach. This action that is the one that best protects and respects the moral rights of the affected parties. Moral rights mean the right to make one’s own choices about what kind of life to lead. Most people acknowledge that every people deserved some moral rights. Every employee has their rights to voice out all the things that they are not satisfy with the management accordingly.
Fairness approach. Ethical actions that treat all human being equally or fairly based on some defensible standard. People believed that their salary should be paid to what type of work that they already done. For example, a clerk should be paid based on clerk’s salary and not with the manager’s salary.
Common good approach. Common good approach is interlocking relationship that underlie all societies. It emphasize the common condition that are important to the welfare of everyone. For example, system of law, health care and public educational system.
Describe any four (4) threats to information security and explain any two (2) methods of defense mechanism used to protect information systems.
Espionage or trespass. This thing occurs when unauthorized person attempt to gain illegal access to organizational information. It is important to distinguish between competitive intelligence and industrial espionage.
Information extortion. This this occurs when an attacker seal the information from a company. The perpetrator demands payment for not stealing the information, for
Describe the major ethical issues related to information technology and identify situations in which they occur.
Utilitarian approach. This action provides most goods benefit or least harm. This action usually happens in corporate action. The affected parties for example customers, employees, share holder and the community. CEO choose to promote ‘go green campaign’ so that this campaign will create an awareness through the staff about the importance of environment.
Rights approach. This action that is the one that best protects and respects the moral rights of the affected parties. Moral rights mean the right to make one’s own choices about what kind of life to lead. Most people acknowledge that every people deserved some moral rights. Every employee has their rights to voice out all the things that they are not satisfy with the management accordingly.
Fairness approach. Ethical actions that treat all human being equally or fairly based on some defensible standard. People believed that their salary should be paid to what type of work that they already done. For example, a clerk should be paid based on clerk’s salary and not with the manager’s salary.
Common good approach. Common good approach is interlocking relationship that underlie all societies. It emphasize the common condition that are important to the welfare of everyone. For example, system of law, health care and public educational system.
Describe any four (4) threats to information security and explain any two (2) methods of defense mechanism used to protect information systems.
Espionage or trespass. This thing occurs when unauthorized person attempt to gain illegal access to organizational information. It is important to distinguish between competitive intelligence and industrial espionage.
Information extortion. This this occurs when an attacker seal the information from a company. The perpetrator demands payment for not stealing the information, for