Professional and Ethical Practise in Information Technology

Ethical Practises 1
PROFESSIONAL AND ETHICAL PRACTISE
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Ethical Practises 2
According to the 4 weeks study, ethics are the moral principles, which guide and
determine how people execute their duties, relate with each other as well as with the
environment. They are the rights and wrongs firms or people must put into consideration,
when operating to avoid conflicts of interest. Therefore, it is clear that all firms stakeholders
for example managers, corporate ethics officers, employees must be ethical in their
operations and decision making process to ensure ethical programs are implemented
((Markham and Buchanan 2015).
Information Technology entails the use of systems such as computers to store, retrieve
and be able to send information from one person to another. However, there is increased
internet crimes globally aimed at enabling unauthorised people access certain information.
The perpetrators of these crimes include criminal doing it for financial gain, thrill seekers
wanting challenge, terrorist seeking to cause harm to the people or industries spies aiming at
getting competitive advantage in the market. The internet crimes such as cyber bullying,
identity theft, attack on computer systems, hacking, email spam and phishing, online frauds
have been on the rise increasing vulnerability of the users. Therefore, firms and people must
institute security policies and procedures such as install corporate firewall, antivirus software
and intrusion detection systems to protect both software and hardware from security breaches
by criminals.
Since the systems, deal with confidential and private information of the parties
involves, ethics for workers, and users are essential for regulation. The workers include the
programmers, database administrators, software engineers, local area network administrators,
chief information officers, who ensure that the systems are in the best working conditions.
They provide the software, hardware and services to the systems users at a certain cost. The
users include students, firms’ employees, and governments among other parties give the IT
workers their terms and afterwards compensate them for their goods and services.