¶ … Security
The author of this report has been asked to answer a few questions as it relates to information security. Specifically, it will be answered to what metrics or proverbial yardsticks could or should be used to measure information security and information privacy. Indeed, there are a number of ways to measure precisely that. However, there are implications with doing do that have a bearing on both privacy and security of the people involved in divulging (or not divulging) the secrets of the firm. On one hand, there is the need and desire to keep the private and confidential information of a firm safe. On the other, there is a line, at least for many, between keeping an eye out and being too invasive even if company phones and computer equipment is the communication tool in question. While companies can be rather aggressive in monitoring what is going on with their equipment and what information is being communicated, pushing too hard and observing too much can cause privacy-related and other blowback.
Analysis
As far as monitoring business information privacy and so forth, there are a number of things that can be done. First, there can be a monitoring...
A similar amount of monitoring can be done as it relates to media that is removed from a workstation or network server and placed on removable/portable media such as a tablet, smartphone, USB thumb drive, external hard drive or burnable disk like a DVD-ROM or BD-ROM. There are also software tools that can scan ingoing and outgoing emails and/or attachments to make sure that something is not being sent improperly. For example, if a company has a high frequency of emails and such that contain sensitive information such as bank account numbers or Social Security numbers, each email leaving the company's servers can be scanned to ensure that a file is not being sent improperly or insecurely. An employee doing so in large fashion or in excess over time can lead to a huge nightmare for a firm and/or its customers. As Baltzan explains, among other places, in the fourth chapter of the class text, there are ethical challenges in doing all of this (Baltzan, 2015).
As far as the ethics involved of scanning emails, listening to phone calls and…
