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The Ethics Of The And Public And Private Industry

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External hacks can cause a business or government millions of dollars as well as the loss of vast amounts of personal data. What is not as prevalent in the news is how these internal hackers often use an insider’s credentials to gain access to a computer network. Equally as troubling is there are businesses that disregard the likelihood of a hacker coming from within their own organization. Cybersecurity should begin internally, however, as in the case of AT&T, “one of world 's largest communications companies” (AT&T Company Information - Key Facts, n.d.), human beings tend to be the greatest security vulnerability to the public and private industry. In 1875, Alexander Graham Bell whose invention efforts for the talking telegraph were financed by Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders, invented what is known today as the . These three men for Bell Telephone Company to exploit the telephone. With that, the first telephone switchboard, Bell Telephone began business in New Haven Connecticut in 1878 (A Brief History: Origins, n.d.). Bell Telephone Company became the American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) Company in 1885 when they were commissioned to form a long distance telephone network. Over roughly the next 131 years, AT&T was able to successfully “operate most efficiently as a monopoly providing universal service” (A Brief History: Origins, n.d.). They were involved in managing the manufacturing of telephone equipment for countries around the globe. However, by

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