1-14-14 NT2580 Assignment 2 Chapter 3 & 5 QA’s 1) The main goal of cyberattack is to affect one or more IT assets. A. True 2) Which of the following best describes intellectual property? C. The Unique knowledge a business possesses 3) Which of the following terms best describes a person with very little skill. B.
In this journal, Drew discuss the goals of IT security to protect the use of mobile devices in CPA firms and other businesses. His article outlines cybersecurity threats on the mobile and cloud fronts and lists steps that accounting firms, individuals CPAs, and other can take to reduce their risk of suffering a devastating data breach. Drew discusses how the rate of smartphones and tablets sales increase and how it reached 144.4 million units in the first quarter. With the growth of smartphones and tablet increasing, the risk of malicious software have increased. “One of the biggest risks involves employees or executives downloading personally identifying or confidential client information to their personal smartphones or tablets”.
The people that interview us and give us our jobs have the option to use Facebook and technology to observe us and see what we are about and decide whether we would make a good fit for their position. In Roni Jacobson’s essay “Facebook Snooping on Job Candidates May Backfire for Employers” he says that “Profile screening (of our profiles on Facebook) could potentially color the judgment of the applicant- whether they realize it or not”. Everything we do online like posting about the awesome party we attended last night or saying something about how we hate working is seen by our employers which in some cases can cause loss of our opportunity for that job. Technology can give us opportunity but also take it away just like that. There are definitely positives and negatives that come out of technology but it doesn’t matter how much we learn or how much we take from it, we will never have anything without reality and the real life aspect of life itself.
Supporting Details: a. On the social life, people tend to interact in a virtual life; therefore, the real social interaction between friends and family was is being ignored and disappearing gradually. b. On the economic life, people buy expensive smartphones and costly devices for the only reason of keeping in touch with their virtual friends while there are walking in the street, sitting in the bus, or even waiting in a queue. c. On the personal life, people especially teenagers have become highly addicted to this new drug which is social networks.
How can those factors be managed? The three huge factors contribution of theft of time in the work place is the internet, mobile phones and smoke breaks. • The internet is probably the most taking advantage of when it comes to theft of time because you can use the internet for almost anything like for researching, news, shopping, social sites, etc. Because the internet is now a part of our everyday lives, it can become a natural instinct to utilize the internet but employees must be mindful of internet usage on company time especially for personal use. Employers can manage internet usage by blocking employees from accessing certain sites (i.e.
He thinks the students should be taught interpersonal intelligence and learn when, where, and what kind of internet usage is appropriate. Also in his essay it’s pointed out that many students are addicted to Facebook which tally’s 250 million hits everyday and ranks 9th in overall traffic over the internet. That kind of social networking affects all forms of academe. Additionally, online communities have a lot of factious information. It’s easy for a person to create a factitious profile and use these anonymous profiles.
A good solution might be to block the access to websites such as Facebook, so that technology can continue to be a tool for knowledge and intellectual advancement, rather than socialization. Many friends of mine use Facebook on a daily basis for several reasons: to chat with other friends, to see what other people’s lives look like, or to keep in contact with people that live far away. All five of the friends I asked said Facebook is a very useful website, but it is also addicting and a waste of time most of the time. Works Cited Bugeja, Michael. “Facing the Facebook.” The Arlington Reader: Contexts and Connections.
These ads get in the way of the viewers screen and will most of the time trick you into clicking onto the pop up, which unethically redirects you to another web page. It may even make you click in an area that authorizes an installation of some sort of adware to your computer. Lack of online B2C ethics has been a large contributor to identity theft and internet fraud. In conclusion, there are many legal and ethical concerns with online B2B and B2C sites. Since most of the internet is unregulated it is important to research companies that we consider doing business with from the B2B or the B2C perspective.
Miller 1 Debby Miller Professor Davis English 101 29 June 2014 Home Schooling Children In Kimberly Walker's Article, entitled, “How Social Media Made Us Narcissists, “she claims the social media has pushed us all into steamy love affairs with ourselves. It's evidenced by the myriad profile shots that feature us in every possible scenario from exercising to pretend- ing to be sleep. Most people believed that the social media is a good way to stay in contact with people. Most people use it for this purpose. She also states that social media encourages bullies to say things that they wouldn't normally say.
Facebook is the gun that enables us to fire virtual bullets at all of the people that we despise, but every so often we take a shell in return. This shell can put a ripple in our psychological state which has us asking ourselves, I am I as happy as my friends ? “ The real danger with Facebook is not that it allows us to isolate ourselves, but that by mixing our appetite for isolation with our vanity, it threatens to alter the very nature of solitude” (Marche) . People should have their moments of solitude in this crazy stressful life; Sadly facebook acts as a weapon that destroy our much needed seclusion. In today’s generation having a face book ties you to being part of the pop culture phenomenon, without having one you receive the feeling that you are missing out on the virtual connection.