IT Ethics Handbook:: Right and Wrong for IT Professionals - Softcover

Northcutt, Stephen; Madden, Cynthia; Welti, Cynthia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931836140 ISBN 13: 9781931836142

Publisher: Syngress, 2004

Synopsis

The target audience for this book is any IT professional responsible for designing, configuring, deploying or managing information systems. This audience understands that the purpose of ethics in information security is not just morally important; it equals the survival of their business. A perfect example of this is Enron. Enron's ultimate failure due to a glitch in the ethics systems of the business created the most infamous example of an ethics corporate breakdown resulting in disaster. Ethics is no longer a matter of morals anymore when it comes to information security; it is also a matter of success or failure for big business.

* This groundbreaking book takes on the difficult ethical issues that IT professional confront every day.

* The book provides clear guidelines that can be readily translated into policies and procedures.

* This is not a text book. Rather, it provides specific guidelines to System Administrators, Security Consultants and Programmers on how to apply ethical standards to day-to-day operations.

About this title

About the Author

Stephen Northcutt, Director of Training and Certification for the SANS Institute, is a graduate of Mary Washington College. Before entering the computer security field he had a varied career as a Navy helicopter search and rescue crewman, white water rafting guide, culinary chef, martial arts instructor, cartographer, and network designer. He is the author or co-author of various publications including: Incident Handling Step-by-Step, Intrusion Signatures and Analysis, Inside Network Perimeter Security, SANS Security Essentials, Network Intrusion Detection, 3RD edition and now IT Ethics Handbook: Right and Wrong for IT Professionals. He was also the original author of the Shadow Intrusion Detection system and first DoD Shadow team leader before becoming the Chief for Information Warfare at the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization.

Cynthia Madden was educated at the University of Connecticut and Columbia University. She has ten years of experience working as a senior consultant on Wall Street advising brokerage firms on all aspects of information technology and business ranging from hands on software development to high-level management and street-wide test co-ordination. Her passion is bringing a new model to businesses, which creates co-operation, balance, and integrity among all relationships within a business be it management and employees, vendors relationships, investor relations, and family life for employees and business owners alike. Cynthia lives in Hawaii and is an active martial artist holding two championship titles for women’s black belt division full contact fighting.

About this edition

• Publisher: Syngress
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1931836140
• ISBN 13: 9781931836142
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 500