INFORMATION SECURITY AND ETHICS

Assignment Overview
Taking care of information falls to those who own the information to develop ethical guidelines about how to manage it. Treating sensitive corporate information as a valuable resource is good management. Building a corporate culture based on ethical principles that employees can understand and implement is responsible management. Organizations should develop written policies establishing employee guidelines, procedures, and organizational rules for information.
Epolicies typically include: Ethical computer use policy, Information privacy policy, Acceptable use policy, email privacy policy, Internet use policy, and Anti-spam policy.
Case Assignment
In this assignment you are expected to read the required readings listed in the background material and at least one other elective reading.
When you complete the readings, write a 4-5 pages paper addressing the topic:
Policies and procedures that organizations should implement to protect themselves
In your paper, be sure to include:
•    What are security policies or e-policies?
•    Explain three security policies that you would primarily recommend to an organization to have and why?
•    How security policies should be implemented in organizations?
Assignment Expectations
Your assignment will be graded following these expectations:
•    Precision: the questions asked are answered.
•    Clarity: Your answers are clear and show your good understanding of the topic.
•    Breadth and depth: The scope covered in your paper is directly related to the questions of the assignment and the learning objectives of the module.
•    Critical thinking: It is important to read the required readings posted in the background material plus others you find relevant. Your paper should include important concepts from these readings and incorporate YOUR reactions and examples that illustrate your reflective judgment and good understanding of the concepts.
•    Your paper is well written and the references are properly cited and listed (refer to TUI guidelines http://support.trident.edu/files/Well-Written-Paper.pdf )
•    Your paper meets the page requirements not counting the cover page or the references pages.