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Running head: ETHICAL ISSUES FOR IT SECURITY PERSONENNEL ETHICAL ISSUES FOR IT SECURITY PERSONENNEL Name of the StudentName of the universityAuthor’s note

1ETHICAL ISSUES FOR IT SECURITY PERSONENNEL Ethical issues for IT security personnelThe job responsibilities of the Physicians, the attorneys and other various professionalsimpact upon the lives of the others. As a part of their job training they are imparted knowledgeabout the different codes of ethics. The it professionals know very well that no technologies orthe firewall can make their system absolutely safe, but many IT security experts promise morethan they can actually ever deliver. This sometimes costs fortune to the users and end up to longbillable hours. Thus here it can be clearly seen the ethics is being violated (Ahmad, Ali & Adnan,2012). Switching to a different firewall of a different manufacturer or switching on to an opensource network can be profitable to the IT security personnel, but it is wrong to direct a laymanin the wrong direction, when the IT expert already knows that nothing can provide absolutesecurity to any system(Ahmad, Ali & Adnan, 2012).The two important ethical issues that are found in this context is that the IT professionalsoften promise more than they can actual deliver, which can ultimately increase the profit of theexpert, but the customer have to pay for this. For example, a professional IT expert may ask theclient to install new security device promising him the best service, although the reality is thatthe extra technology that has been installed is actually not required (Berndtsson, 2012). The user,who is a layman obviously will not be able to identify whether the purpose has been served orthe IT security expert has done his job properly or not. Another ethical issue is that, normally switching to an open source of network forprotecting data would be quite expensive for the client, although it will account to more billablehours for the expert other than installing a firewall from other manufacturer (Berndtsson, 2012).

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