Information Security and Ethics: Social and Organizational Issues

Information Security and Ethics: Social and Organizational Issues

Copyright: © 2004 |Pages: 338

ISBN13: 9781591402862|ISBN10: 1591402867|EISBN13: 9781591402343|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781591402336

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-286-2

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Information Security and Ethics: Social and Organizational Issues brings together examples of the latest research, from a number of international scholars, addressing issues significant to this important and growing field of study. These issues are relevant to the wider society, as well as to the individual, citizen, educator, student, and industry professional. With individual chapters focusing on areas including: web accessibility, the digital divide, youth protection, and surveillance, this book provides an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and professionals currently working in information technology related areas.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapters

Information Ethics

Chapter 1

MAMA on the Web: Ethical Considerations for Our Networked World (pages 1-22)

Barbara A. Schuldt

This chapter introduces ethical considerations that are especially relevant for the current networked world. It discusses the use of a mnemonic, MAMA — multicultural, adaptive, multifaceted, and archival — as a way to categorize...

Chapter 2

Establishing the Human Dimension of the Digital Divide (pages 23-47)

Helen Partridge

This chapter will explore the human dimension of the digital divide. It argues that existing digital divide research takes primarily a socio-economic perspective and that few studies have considered the social, psychological or...

Chapter 3

Socio-economic Influence on Information Technology: The Case of California (pages 48-72)

Rasool Azari, James Pick

This chapter examines the influence of socio-economic factors on the employment, payroll, and number of enterprises of three technology sectors for counties in California. Based on correlation and regression analyses, the results...

Chapter 4

The Ethics of Web Design: Ensuring Access for Everyone (pages 73-101)

Jack S. Cook, Laura Cook

Web accessibility is really not a technological issue but rather a cultural problem. A Web site is said to be Web accessible if anyone, regardless of capabilities or disabilities, using any kind of Web browsing technology to visit...

Chapter 5

Web Accessibility for Users with Disabilities: A Multi-faceted Ethical Analysis (pages 102-116)

Alfreda Dudley-Sponaugle, Jonathan Lazar

When designing information systems, it is important to consider the needs of users with disabilities, including those with visual impairment, hearing impairment, or color-blindness. This is especially important for designing...

Chapter 6

Internet Voting: Beyond Technology (pages 117-138)

Trisha Woolley, Craig Fisher

When designing information systems, it is important to consider the needs of users with disabilities, including those with visual impairment, hearing impairment, or color-blindness. This is especially important for designing...

Chapter 7

Protection of Minors from Harmful Internet Content (pages 139-156)

Geoffrey A. Sandy

The Internet provides access to speech both conventional and unconventional. Some speech is considered harmful to minors. This chapter discusses the important social issue of how to best protect minors from such speech without...

Chapter 8

Mobile Communities and the "Generation that Beeps and Hums" (pages 157-178)

Marian Quigley

The rapid appropriation of mobile phone technology by young people is occurring at the same time as critics are debating the so-called demise of community, purportedly as a result of our increasingly technologised and globalised...

Information Security

Chapter 9

Insights from Y2K and 9/11 for Enhancing IT Security (pages 179-200)

Laura Lally

In the post-9/11 environment, there has been an increasing awareness of the need for information security. This chapter presents an analysis of the Y2K problem and 9/11 disaster from the perspective of Lally’s extension of Perrow’s...

Chapter 10

Cryptography: Deciphering Its Progress (pages 201-213)

Leslie Leong, Andrzej T. Jarmoszko

The emphasis and increased awareness of information security require an understanding and knowledge of the technology that supports it. As the risks and complexity of security keep growing along with the development of the Internet...

Chapter 11

A Method of Assessing Information System Security Controls (pages 214-237)

Malcolm R. Pattinson

This chapter introduces a method of assessing the state of an organization’s information system security by evaluating the effectiveness of the various IS controls that are in place. It describes how the Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS)...

Chapter 12

Information Security Policies in Large Organizations: The Development of a Conceptual Framework to Explore Their Impact (pages 238-260)

Neil F. Doherty, Heather Fulford

While the importance of the information security policy (ISP) is widely acknowledged in the academic literature, there has, to date, been little empirical analysis of its impact. To help fill this gap a study was initiated that...

Chapter 13

Metrics Based Security Assessment (pages 261-288)

James E. Goldman, Vaughn R. Christie

This chapter introduces the Metrics Based Security Assessment (MBSA) as a means of measuring an organization’s information security maturity. It argues that the historical (i.e., first through third generations) approaches used to...

Chapter 14

The Critical Role of Digital Rights Management Process (pages 289-305)

Margherita Pagani

This chapter sets out to analyze the impact generated by the adoption of Digital Rights Management (DRM) processes on the typical Digital Media Management Value Chain activities and tries to analyze the processes in the context of...

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