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5/31/2019 Assessment 3 – IT-FP3165 - Spring 2019 - Section 01

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Assessment 3 Ethical and Legal Issues

Overview

Develop a 5–7 slide PowerPoint presentation in which you propose a solution for a corporate security breach.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

Competency 1: Evaluate information technology ethics and the implications for people and technological practices.

Develop a PowerPoint presentation that concisely explains the issue with a security breach. Justify the need for revising an organization's IT ethics policy to prevent future security issues. Use best practices in the profession to develop a policy for employee use of personal items while on company property that conforms to an IT ethics policy.

Competency 2: Evaluate ethical responsibilities of an information technology professional. Describe how security issues impact employees, customers, and companies.

Competency 4: Communicate effectively. Develop a best method for informing customers of a corporate security breach. Use best professional practices to develop an effective method for communication of a new policy to corporate employees. Consistently apply appropriate APA style and formatting guidelines for resources, citations, and grammar.

 

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Questions to Consider

To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of the business community.

What are the similarities and differences between different codes of ethics in a variety of professional organizations? What is the role of the different codes of ethics for IT professionals? What happens when the codes of ethics are violated?

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Resources

Suggested Resources

The following optional resources are provided to support you in completing the assessment or to provide a helpful context. For additional resources, refer to the Research Resources and Supplemental Resources in the left navigation menu of your courseroom.

Library Resources The following e-books and articles from the Capella University Library are linked directly in this course.

Quigley, M. (Ed.) (2008). Encyclopedia of information ethics and security. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. Himma, K. E., & Tavani, H. T. (Eds.). (2008). The handbook of information and computer ethics. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Owens, W. A., Dam, K. W., & Lin, H. (Eds.). (2009). Technology, policy, law, and ethics regarding U.S. acquisition and use of cyberattack capabilities. Washington, DC: National Academies Press. Kizza, J. M. (2003). Ethical and social issues in the information age (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer- Verlag. Harbert, T. (2007, October). Ethics in IT: Dark secrets, ugly truths. And little guidance. Computerworld, 41(44), 34–36. Albrechtslund, A. (2007). Ethics and technology design. Ethics and Information Technology, 9(1), 63–72. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10676-006-9129-8. Rainey, S., & Goujon, P. (2011). Toward a normative ethics for technology development. Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, 9(3), 157–179. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14779961111167649. Jacob, S., & Armistead, L. (2011, March/April). Ethics and technology: Response to Pfohl–Part I. Communiqué, 39(6), 24–25. Leung, B. P. (2011, March/April). Upgrading to SP 4.0. Communiqué, 39(6), 24. Hollander, R. (2013). Computing ethics: Ethics viewpoints efficacies. Communications of the ACM, 56(3), 33–34. doi:10.1145/2428556.2428567. Woodbury, M. (2000, June). The bout of the century? Information ethics vs. e-commerce. Ubiquity.

Course Library Guide A Capella University library guide has been created specifically for your use in this course. You are encouraged to refer to the resources in the IT-FP3165 – Ethics for the Information Technology Professional Library Guide to help direct your research.

Skillsoft Tutorial Skillsoft. (n.d.). Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH): Social engineering [Tutorial].

Internet Resources Access the following resources by clicking the links provided. Please note that URLs change frequently. Permissions for the following links have been either granted or deemed appropriate for educational use at the time of course publication.

Velasquez, M., Andre, C., Shanks, T., & Meyer, M. J. (n.d.). Thinking ethically. Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Retrieved from http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v7n1/thinking.html Velasquez, M., Moberg, D., Meyer, M. J., Shanks, T., McLean, M. R., DeCosse, D., ... & Hanson, K. O. (2009). A framework for ethical decision making. Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Retrieved from http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/decision/framework.html

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Illinois Institute of Technology Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions. (n.d.). Using codes of ethics. Retrieved from http://ethics.iit.edu/ecodes/using-codes-ethics Illinois Institute of Technology Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions. (2011). Code of ethics for IT professionals. Retrieved from http://ethics.iit.edu/ecodes/node/3115 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.acm.org/ Gehringer, E. F. (n.d.). Ethics in computing. Retrieved from http://ethics.csc.ncsu.edu/ EC-Council. (2012). Code of ethics. Retrieved from http://www.eccouncil.org/about_us/code_of_ethics.aspx

Bookstore Resources The resources listed below are relevant to the topics and assessments in this course and are not required. Unless noted otherwise, these materials are available for purchase from the Capella University Bookstore. When searching the bookstore, be sure to look for the Course ID with the specific –FP (FlexPath) course designation.

Tavani, H. T. (2016). Ethics and technology: Controversies, questions, and strategies for ethical computing (5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

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Assessment Instructions

Consider the following scenario:

You are the IT manager for XYZ Corporation, which has just discovered a security breach due to an employee falling for a spam phishing scam. This caused the employee to give the scammer access to the customer data base that includes customers' social security numbers, addresses, birth dates, and telephone numbers. It is your responsibility to meet with the executives of the corporation and propose a solution for this problem.

For this assessment, develop a 5–7 slide PowerPoint presentation. Include the following in your presentation:

1. Describe the XYZ Corporation's security breach concisely.

2. Address the impact this security breach would likely have on employees and customers, as well as the XYZ Corporation itself.

3. Develop a best method for how customers will be informed of the security breach.

4. Justify the need for revising the XYZ Corporation's IT ethics policy so that these types of security breaches can be prevented in the future.

5. Develop a policy (or policies) for the use of employees' own electronic devices while on the corporate campus (BYOD) and describe how it conforms to the new IT ethics policy.

6. Develop a best method for how new and existing policies will be communicated to employees.

Additional Requirements

The first slide will include the title of your presentation and your name. The final slide will include your references. You should have at least three references. The PowerPoint presentation should be 5–7 slides, not including the title and reference slides. References should be in APA format.

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