Essays on Disabling

Introduction

If an employee with access to sensitive information was terminated, then the employee is considered as an insider threat. These insiders can cause three types of threats to an organization: Sabotage, Fraud, or theft of intellectual property (IP) or data using Information Technology (IT). IT sabotage uses IT to harm the critical assets of the organization. IT can be used to steal data or IP or also for espionage by insiders. Using IT to tamper data, addition, or deletion of data for personal gain or to perform an identity crime can be considered IT fraud.

Hacker’s Targets

In the present scenario, ...

On December 2, 2015, the usually peaceful city of San Bernardino in California went through turmoil as 14 of its residents were killed and 22 others seriously injured in what seemed to be an unprovoked terrorist attack. Although the suspect and his foreign-born wife were eventually subdued in a gunfight that ended in their deaths, another battle took place in court as the tech giant Apple and the FBI locked horns over the issue of prying into the contents of the gunman’s iPhone. What the investigation agency wanted was for Apple to write a code that would allow ...

Question a.

Wipro has added special terms under their employee handbook to help disabled employee feel comfortable and part of the organization. Wipro aims to offer equal opportunity to all their employees and avoid engaging in or supporting any form of discrimination in hiring, training, compensation, termination, promotion, or retirement on the basis of disability (Wipro, 2012).

The provisions of Wipro’s employee conduct have guidelines to protect the rights of disabled employees, such as:

a. Employees need to co-operate with all measures introduced for the development of equal opportunities; b. Employees must respect other employees and their sensitivities. This means that disabled employees need to be respected in the office environment. c. Employees need to refrain from any ...