Ethical Issues and Ethical Dilemma Proof Reading Services

Ethical Issues and Ethical Dilemma Proof Reading Services

This ethical issues and ethical dilemma assignment we discuss Critical analysis of  Mike Lynn’s action, Analysis of Cisco and ISS’s action, Outline of a reasonable approach.

Introduction

Ethical issues are something about the issue due to problem involving right and wrong and in this context ethical dilemma can occur. Ethical dilemma can be addressed as when ethics contradicts with each other here to explain the ethical dilemma a example can be explained as one must feed his family yet he cannot steal. In this case, the ethical issues of Mike Lynn must be highlighted and Mike Lynn was in ethical dilemma. In this case, there should be outline of the approach for Mike Lynn by which Lynn can move back from the dilemma. In this study there should be a proper highlight on the ethical issues of IT security.

1. Critical analysis of  Mike Lynn’s action

In this study, Mike Lynn has a liability according to the Australian ethical law context. Basically liability is legal obligation and the theme of that obligation is that if an employee doing something without the authorization of the employer that may harm the employer financially and the employee should know about what is acceptable and what is not. According to this law  as an employee, Mike Lynn not acted in a responsible manner. In this study, Mike Lynn without knowing anything, decide to inform the IT professional and other people about the analysis that it could be possible to create a network worm and it propagate that it could attack and took control the routers across the internet. However it basically an ethical issue for Mike Lynn that Lynn tries to inform the IT professional and common people about the danger. However, it may be a harm for Internet security system and Cisco router.

The reason of not supporting Mike as responsible

According to the legal issues, the Mike Lynn should have to aware about the law and it should know more about the issues of Internet security system and Cisco, what the acceptable behavior of them is and what is not. According to the Internet security system and Cisco, the decision of Mike Lynn may the cause of their financial harm. As Mike Lynn is not aware about the policy of the company so the movement of him was not appropriate towards Cisco and Internet security system.

The reason of supporting Mike as responsible

Though Mike Lynn discuss the issues with internet security system and Cisco that he decided to inform and decided to talk about the issues at Black hat conference. Still the employee oh the Cisco tore out 10 pages from Mike Lynn's presentation and Internet security system asked Lynn to give a presentation on voice over internet protocol, not about the topic that he decided to present in the conference. In this context, Mike Lynn should keep a soft copy or any electronic version of his presentation. According to the Australian IT ethics, Mike Lynn was not introduced with the policy of any of the Company so he has no idea what would be acceptable for Cisco and Internet security system. Mike Lynn here go with his ethics as there was a flaw in the Cisco; software that could allow the hackers to take over the corporate and government network and the internet and they can mislead the data, which may a danger for the IT professional and for the common people. Therefore, Mike Lynn decide to present this topic at Black hat conference.

2. Analysis of Cisco and ISS’s action

Cisco and Internet security system pull the plug of Lynn’s presentation at black hat conference which was not legally right, they may have the problem with that issues that Lynn going to present at Black hat conference. Before going to present the topic Mike Lynn discussed with the Cisco and Internet security system. Cisco and Internet security system has the option to ask Lynn not to present the  issue at black hat conference, in spite of that Cisco and ISS pull the plug on Lynn’s presentation at Black hat conference and  asked Lynn to present an another topic. Cisco and internet security system are ethically right in the case of that issue but not legally, this created a dilemma for everyone who are engaged in this particular issue.

The reason of ethically right

According to the Australian IT ethics the employee should know about the employer accepted behavior and not accepted behavior, here in this study as a employee Mike Lynn without knowing anything going with his ethics and going to present that whatever he observed in his analysis, This may be the cause of financial harm for Cisco and Internet security system, so to prevent their  financial harm Cisco and internet security system pull the plug of Mike Lynn’s presentation at black hat conference.

The reason of not legally right

In this study never Cisco nor Internet security system introduced the policy of the organization with Mike Lynn as an employee of the company. According to the guideline of Australian ethics, an organization must be able to know that the employee knows about the requirement of the organization and the organization should have the information that all the employee agree with the policy of the organization. The organization must have the knowledge about that the employee read all the documents and policy which require specific action to acknowledge agreement to comply with the policy of the organization. According to Mike Lynn, the issue becomes an ethical issue as he wants to inform about the danger in internet security, but the Internet security system and Cisco never want this because there may be the financial loss for them. Just to stop Mike Lynn Internet security system and Cisco must inform Mike Lynn about their policy without informing about the policy of the company they cannot pull the plug of Mike Lynn’s presentation and never asked him not to present the issue in the conference. In the end, Mike Lynn present his issues in Black hat conference about the flaws of Cisco’s software that it could allow hackers to take over the corporate and government network and the internet.

3. Outline of a reasonable approach

In this study for Mike Lynn's activity, make an ethical dilemma for everyone and for this reason the internet security system and Cisco act as the enemy. Without knowing the policy of this company Mike Lynn goes for the ethics which lead to a financial harm for the Cisco and Internet security system. To prevent the harm both companies acts like an enemy and they pull the plug of Mike Lynn’s presentation at black hat conference. Mike Lynn want to prevent the society with his analysis that the Cisco’s software has some flaws that enable the  hackers to took control over the internet and network. This would be a violation of privacy according to  Federal privacy act 1974.

A better approach as suggested

According to the, federal privacy acts the government identify those who share information without permission, in the case of Cisco this incident happens exactly due to their software’s flaw. Which observed by Mike Lynn. The internet researcher Mike Lynn can discuss the effectiveness of this flaw with Cisco and Internet security system and Mike Lynn can also inform them of legal issues of his flaws and the result of it. Mike Lynn can read the policy of both company and before going to present the issue in the Black hat conference, he can discuss with Cisco and Internet security system about how to resolve the problem. Mike Lynn can express the issue as the software fault, not as the fault of Cisco[6]. Mike Lynn should aware about the financial loss of Cisco and Internet security system, Mike Lynn should ensure Cisco and Internet security system about there will be no financial loss for them. If the internet researcher Mike Lynn move in this manner then there will be no such problem and this approach should help Mike Lynn to move towards the communicating the flaws in the Cisco routers that would have lead to the problem without harming Cisco and Internet security system financially.

Conclusion

In this case study Cisco, Internet security system and Mike Lynn’s movement make some ethical dilemma which is not always a good point for a business but sometime it happens in case of helping others or lying for others for solving their problem. As in this case Mike Lynn created the dilemma in order to prevent the common people from the  internet security danger. By some new guideline, Mike lynn can move back from the dilemma which help them to resolve the problem. Misuse of technology can be identified as the ethical dilemma and this problem should be overcome by the management. In this study there also privacy related issue for which the ethical dilemma occurs, though the problem of ethical dilemma not properly resolved but still it is in the end by allowing Mike Lynn to present the issue at Black hat conference. The can properly remove by following the new way that are directed in the study.

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