Assignment 1: Case Study Of Hacking Into Harvard

2. Taking the two examples (one example of right versus right moral dilemma, and one example of right versus wrong from your work experience) that you identified in week one, what criteria and factors were considered during the examination of the issue or dilemma?

2. Assess the morality of what the curious applicants did from the point of view of egoism, utilitarianism, Kant’ ethics, Ross’ pluralism, and rule utilitarianism.

The Dean of Harvard Business School, Kim B. Clark, stood at a crossroads and incurred opportunity cost in two options such as ignoring the hacking or rejecting all applicants who had attempted to look at information. On the decision making process contains the impact of ethics. Moral philosophic factors will be taken into consideration as well as unconscious behaviors and attitudes will be occurred. Various approaches of ethical decision making was stated by Shannon Bowen (2002, pg 271) was stated such as materialism, utilitarianism and deontology. The utilitarianism was defined ‘This approach is typically identified with the policy of “maximizing the overall good” (Desjardins, J., 2009. p. 27). Positive and negative acts are determined by their consequences. In this case, the decision maker, the Dean of Harvard Business School, might use a self-interest approach for his short-term benefits which he could not have any ethical issues and got out of problem. However, it will bring moral and ethical issues for long term period such as the lack of veracity, fairness and the breach of trust from other applicants and stakeholders.

Security and ethical employees will continue to be a vital aspect of ensuring the success of an organization. There will always be a need for ethical IT security professional as hackers will continue to force organizations to make adjustments in their business models to protect their employees, data and customers. Many organizations and managers believe application security requires simply installing a perimeter firewall, or taking a few configuration measures to prevent applications or operating systems from being attacked. This is a risky misconception. By understanding threats and respect impacts, organizations will be equipped to maintain confidentiality, availability and

Apply the ethical decision making model presented in week one lectures (adapted from Beemsterboer, 2010; Velasquez et al, 2009) to the case study.

1.3 – explain a range of ethical and moral dilemmas faced by those in this role

Now, let's see how learning about the Four Ethical Lenses and a simple method for decision-making can help you resolve a typical ethical dilemma. Ready?

Premier Collegiate School has a staff of thirty (30) faculty members, including administrative staff and teachers, and an enrollment of 300 students. The school maintains two (2) servers, one for student usage applications and software, and one for administration. Also, teachers have ten (10) computers located in the teacher’s lounge; and each administrative personnel have dedicated computers (10) at their disposal. Each student is required to provide their own laptop with wireless access (ITT technical institute, 2016).

Hacking into Harvard is a case study written about an occurrence starting from an anonymous post on the message board for BusinessWeek Online that gave clear and concise instructions on how to view a school’s acceptance decision on the ApplyYourself application software There were many critics who would argue against the schools decisions such as punishments and the fact that the actions to view the restricted information was regarded as hacking. Parable of Sadhu is a case study written about a climbing trip in the Himalayas where a group of people encountered a dying pilgrim on their trip. There was an issue between individual ethics and corporate ethics colliding. If they have stopped to help bring the dying pilgrim down, they would have not been able to complete their venture to reach the top. Challenger is a case study of how there was the space shuttle in January 1986 that is, without question, the worst disaster in the nation’s space program. An employee attempted to stop the launch of the shuttle, but ended up unsuccessful. Enron is a case study about a business, who was ranked the fifth-largest company in the United States in 2002. The company ended up bankrupt Blood for Sale is a case study written about how blood is a commodity with a price. People are willing to sell blood in order to gain a profit or purchase it in order to sell a life. The main issue with blood for sale

This week’s Discussion topic is BYP7-7, Ethics Case, on page 330 of your textbook which reads as follows:

The ethical issues in this case are that business schools and corporations were found to require more ethics training resources due to a number of large scandals were booming into the public eye. The Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 and the revision of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines created new rewards and repercussions to corporations providing more ethics training programs. The less ethics training offered by a corporation, the more severe the punishment would be or wrongdoing. Using ex-cons as a tool to teach ethics came to be a new growing profitable opportunity. Colleges started using this tool to attempt to teach students about business ethics. There are pros and cons to this opportunity and it is a controversial topic.

3. Analyze your response above and decide what type(s) of ethical thinking you used. Did you use deontological, consequentialist, or virtue ethics?

The use of information technology in business presents major security challenges, poses serious ethical question, and affects society in significant ways. Especially, the computer crime is a growing threat to society and is caused by the criminal or irresponsible actions of individuals who are taking advantage of the widespread use and vulnerability of computers and the Internet and other networks. It presents a major challenge to the integrity, safety, and survival of most business systems.

2. Suppose Ford officials were asked to justify their decision. What moral principles do you think they would invoke? Assess Ford’s

Kevin David Mitnick was born in Los Angeles on august 6, 1963 and he attended James Monroe high school in L.A. He was a hacker, phreaker and social engineer, who was the world’s most wanted computer criminal in 90’s, He was charged for many criminal activities forfraud and computer hacking into many top companies and stealing their confidential data. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrested Kevin Mitnick on February 15, 1995. He spent nearly five years in a federal prison for the charges. He is now a computer security consultant, author, and an ethical hacker, who started a computer security company called “Mitnick Security Consulting, LLC” and getting paid by the companies for ethical hacking.