MIS 180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Acceptable Use Policy, Script Kiddie, Keystroke Logging

• School: SDSU
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MIS 180
• Professor: Robert Judge

Document Summary

Ethics the principles and standards that guide our behavior toward other people. Information ethics govern the ethical and moral issues arising from the development and use of information technologies, as well as the creation, collection, duplication, distribution, and processing of information itself. Business issues related to information ethics: intellectual property, copyright (fair use doctrine, pirated software, counterfeit software, use of customer personal data. Acting ethically and legally are not always the same. Information does not care how it is used, it will not stop itself from sending spam, viruses, or highly sensitive information. Tools to prevent information misuse: information management, information governance, information compliance, ediscovery (lawyers dream) Organizations strive to build a corporate culture based on ethical principles that employees can understand and implement. Epolicies typically include: ethical computer use policy, information privacy policy (ferpa, acceptable use policy, email privacy policy, social media policy, workplace monitoring policy. Ethical computer use policy contains general principles to guide computer user behavior.