The Balance Between Security And Privacy

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Cyber Security: The Balance Between Security And Privacy
The balance between security and privacy is important to realize. With the expansion of
Internet and Technology, organizations and individuals have found it difficult to obtain the
balance between security and privacy. It is often believed that additional security comes at the
price of compromised privacy and vice-versa. Therefore, it is important that organizations and
individuals should realize the importance of obtaining the balance between security and privacy.
Simply defined, cyber security means the protection of digital information against external
threats and attacks. In terms of what going on it can be said that there are increased cases of
privacy violation and security compromises in this world (Scott & Wynne, 2016). The incidences
like Wiki-Leaks bring forward the issue of privacy. With the increase use of Internet and
Technology there has been some new risks in the area of cyber security. For example, a survey
suggested that close to 40% of the companies in the world have witnessed a data theft. One
another interesting fact is that the investors want to invest in the companies that have strong
policies towards data security. A survey suggested that close to 80% of the investors does not
want to invest in the companies where there are chances of data breach. It can be said that cyber
security touches various aspects of human life. The cyber security is a concern not only for
organizations and individuals but also for political parties as cyber security is also linked with
terrorism.
The holistic issue of cyber security can be analyzed or broken down into number of
issues. It can be said that the elements of ethical and social issues are evident prominently in
cyber security. Apart from the ethical and social issues, there are issues associated with political,
legal and technological dimension. The issue of cyber security is a social issue as this issue
directly links to the society (Manshaei & Zhu, 2013). The people in the society are apprehensive
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of cyber security and this issue affects society at large. It is also a political issue as in in the wake
of devastating terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, security experts are increasingly discussing
whether governments should have exceptional access to digital information and data in order to
disrupt and intercept terrorists’ use of online communication to recruit members, raise funds and
plan attacks. In the end, it is a serious ethical issue, as organizations have to decide the cost of
privacy or freedom provided to employees. Someone has to draw a line somewhere and it
constitutes the ethical issue (Ohana & Dunkelman, 2016).
There are various stakeholders involved in the case of cyber security that are affected.
The individuals or the employees of the organizations are impacted a lot. The leaders and the
organizations are other stakeholders that are affected. In addition to these two stakeholders, the
other two key stakeholders are government and society at large. One of the key ethical issues is
that the organizations have to decide the cost of privacy or freedom provided to employees.
Organizations have to decide freedom of privacy that should be given to employees. It is an
important ethical issue as organizations have all personal information of employees and they
must decide the additional layer of security that they should put around it (Wang & Lu, 2013).
It can be said that there is no easy solution to this. However, there are certain things that
can be done about this. For instances, different organizations should collaborate together to form
the set of common standards that should be applied as guidelines for cyber security. The cyber
security issue can be analyzed from the four ethical theories of utilitarianism, deontology, virtue
and contract (Goel, 2015). The utilitarianism theory suggests that we should do the things that
give us maximum happiness or utility. In this case, it means that organizations should establish
the privacy policy as they wish to manage cyber security. The utilitarianism theory suggests that
different organizations can have different policies of cyber security. The deontology theory of
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