Profit Vs. Freedom of Speech: a Cross-Cultural Perspective It is no secret that in a business profit is the bottom line. It is the reason someone starts a company, the reason employees crawl out of bed each morning, and the reason why sometimes ethical values are bent or broken. On the small scale, such as a local grocery, ethics of the owners and employees can be easily maintained because the area they are operating in shares the same values. This, however, is not the case with global businesses
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gathering, analyzing, and distributing intelligence about products, customers, competitors, and any aspect of the environment needed to support executives and managers making strategic decisions for an organization Competitive intelligence is an ethical and legal business practice, as opposed to industrial espionage, which is illegal Competitive intelligence essentially means understanding and learning what's happening in the world outside your business so you can be as competitive as possible. It
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Section 5.2.2, we described the incident in which a hacker group hacked into the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system to protest BART’s shut down of wireless communication in some BART stations. Was this a form of hacktivism? Was it ethical? Give reasons. The term hacking has a number of different definitions, and may have positive or negative depending on the situation and people affected or not. A group hacked into the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system and released emails, passwords, and personal
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Global Asset, Inc. (GAI) Risk Assessment Paper By _____________ May 3, 2015 CMIT 425 Professor Effective Network System In this paper I will show the management team of GLOBAL ASSET, INC. the importance/benefits of having an internally operational Information System, over the benefits they believe they will reap when they outsource such services. I will also convince and help them design a better and more secure Information System. Among the odds of outsourcing IT services there are
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Why Hire Me? _____________________________________________________________ I am a highly motivated and professional Security Engineer with (Linux Professional Institute (LPI 102) certification and willing to pass CEH Certified Ethical Hacking). Capable of delivering at the highest level. With excellent interpersonal skills, I am confident in my ability to become the most valuable member of your company. I have developed expertise in networks security, pentesting and managing IT functions on day-to-day
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How Ethics Relate To Computer Crimes Herman T. Everidge III Legal and Ethical Issues in Computing CIS 4253, 847 James R. Moore, Jr. September 29, 2012 Computer Viruses, Worms, Trojan Horses and Malware Malware refers to software programs designed to damage or do other unwanted actions on computer systems; viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and spyware are the most common types of malware. Computer viruses show us how vulnerable we are; viruses can have a devastating effect on businesses, they
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According to Beaver (2010), to have a secure operating systems and applications, you need to have a secure network. Devices such as routers, firewalls, and even generic hosts (including servers and workstations) must be assessed as part of the ethical hacking process. There are thousands of possible network vulnerabilities, equally as many tools, and even more testing techniques. You probably don’t have the time or resources available to test your network infrastructure systems for all possible vulnerabilities
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B.U.G. Inc. Paper LAW/421 May 9, 2013 B.U.G. Inc. Paper BUG Inc. is one of the largest manufacturers within confines of the United States that produces and sells electronic recording devices that are heavily used by law enforcement agencies, i.e., police, FBI, etc. to intercept and record sounds and voices. These products that are manufactured by BUG are highly dangerous if it falls into the wrong hands. These electronic devices have the ability to tap into telephone wires, cell phone transmissions
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WEB vs WPA Matthew Otte Friends University Due to the nature of wireless, using radio waves instead of physical media to transferred data, anybody within range could receive the information being transmitted between devices. To successfully employ wireless technology, a solution had to be introduced to ensure security. Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) was introduced to meet this need. WEP is a means to secure Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) by encrypting transmissions at the data-link layer
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tasks that engineers face will be proportionally vast, it is likely that a fair few will be wholly unique and unprecedented. With their welfare and sometimes people’s lives on the line, it can be challenging to know which decision is the right one. Ethical archetypes like egoism, utilitarianism, and Kantian ethics provide a framework to attempt to answer that very question. However, in all of these cases, the optimal result comes with the fore knowledge of all the variables. While this works reasonably
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