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Information Technology Ethics- Assignment

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Information Technology Ethics- Assignment

   Added on 2021-04-21

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Running head: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ETHICS0Topics in Information Technology Ethics
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ETHICS1Table of ContentsAnalysis - Doing Ethics Technique............................................................................................2What is going on?...................................................................................................................2What are the facts?.................................................................................................................2What are the issues?...............................................................................................................2Who is affected?.....................................................................................................................3What are the ethical issues and their implications?...............................................................3What can be done about it?....................................................................................................3What are the options?.............................................................................................................3Which option is the best and why?........................................................................................4References..................................................................................................................................5
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ETHICS2Analysis - Doing Ethics TechniqueThe Doing Ethics Technique (DET) is a tool which assists in analysing differentethical and non-ethical issues relating to a specific scenario. This model focuses on answeringsimple questions and providing their answers in order to evaluate ethical dilemmas in aparticular scenario (Al-Saggaf & Burmeister, 2012). This paper will analyse the ethicalproblems discussed in Video 1 titled Scenario 3: Early Launch by using Doing ethicstechnique (Al-Saggaf, 2016). Ethical problems and their potential implications will bediscussed in the paper by assessing appropriate ethical theory. The best option will beselected from a number of alternative solutions by analysing their implications.What is going on?In the video, the CIO suggests project director that they should deliver their softwarea month early to the client which will increase their chances of getting another agreement.The project director is pressuring the project manager to deliver the software withoutencryption in order to deliver it before the deadline. Project manager argues that encryption isvital to the security of the software without which the risk of hacking will increase. Projectdirector induces the project manager by saying that he and his team will receive bonuses ifthey deliver the software without encryption. What are the facts?Project director is suggesting to project manager that they should deliver the softwareone month earlier to make the client happy. In order to save time, project director issuggesting that they should deliver the software without encryption. According to seniordeveloper, encryption is vital for the security of software without which the risk of hackingincreases substantially. Project director tries to convince project manager by saying that heand his team will receive bonuses if they deliver the software to the client a month earlierthan the decided deadline without encryption.What are the issues?Encryption is a process which is used by organisations to protect their software fromunauthorised access (Curtmola, Garay, Kamara & Ostrovsky, 2011). By using encryption,companies transfer the information into a code which is unreadable without a specific key(Boneh, Sahai & Waters, 2011). It is unethical to deliver the software without encryption
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