The business care for taking control of your computer's software licenses
The Business Software alliance's (Bsa) claim that 90% of all audit letters sent in 2012
resulted from whistle-blower's tip- offs should be a wakeup call to cios. It chiefs may well
ponder how to progress when the boss refuses to budget for the right number of legitimate
software licenses and needs to consider the possibility that disgruntled its staff or contractors are
tipping off suppliers or the Bsa, rather than speaking directly to senior its management about
their software licensing concerns. Whistle-blowers can earn up to £20,000 based the value of the
software licensing feed recouped. For the Bsa, whistle-blowers provide a route into
organization hiding software licensing discrepancies. Building and construction design consult-
ants Kyson Design paid £3,000 in damages for using unlicensed software following an
investigation by the a whistle-blower. The company was required to conduct a self-audit, which
revealed unlicensed adobe, auto desk and Microsoft software.
Reason for Whistle- Blowing
The Bsa's online from for reporting software piracy anonymously is relatively straight
for ward: along with name, address, size of the informant, industry sector, name of ceo and
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for ward: along with name, address, size of the informant, industry sector, name of ceo and
contact email address of the informant, the Bsa only needs information on the names of
software, selected from a drop-down list from the 39 companies it represents. The Bsa assures
whistle-blowers their identities wil...
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...mation; software flaws that give outside access to sensitive
data; spear- phishing attacks on specific individuals within the organization; attacks on outside
companies such as Twitter or Facebook that might provide passwords and other information
about a company’s users; and pirates hacking into encryption codes for pay TV signals V or
DVD disks. Governments and well-funded organized crime group crime groups are increasingly
involved in the attacks, but some of most successful threats are low-tech tactics to steal
passwords. Tom Desot says, “ we are successful in getting passwords about 95%of the time in
social engineering attacks” that trick users out of their passwords via emails or phone calls.
Even higher success rates of 95%- 98% occur when Digital Defense attempts to breach security
from inside a company by going through desks or offices.
The names and genders of all the Junior Executive Secretaries that were terminated along with Jennifer Lawson due to the downsizing.
The purpose of this memorandum is to list that key procedures have been performed, integrities have been compromised, and professional standards were applied through the confirmation process. Positive confirmations send to and received by Simply Soups Inc. on November 2, 2015. These positive confirmations provide evidence to us when response is obtained from the recipient. The purpose of applying positive confirmation in this case is that contacting third party directly helps us to access outside party records
Second part is having all records available for any department to request when it is pertaining to new employment. Especially
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Whistleblowers often make their way into the public eye, but what is a whistle blower exactly? What are the criteria? Whistle blowing is "raising the alarm in public about a wrong being committed in private" (Vickers, 2002, p.42). By definition, a whistle blower can only "blow the whistle" on an organization of which he is a member (Vickers, 2002). That point is rather obvious. After all, the concept of being a whistleblower is providing inside information. Also, it brings up a significant problem. People are reluctant to "blow the whistle" because they can lose everything they worked for. It seems almost unfair. The person in this predicament will have to decide whether or not to keep his job as is, or to do the right thing and tel...
The three things required for whistle blowing to take place are- wrong-doer (who commits the wrong-doing), whistle-blower (who observes and reports the wrong-doing) and recipient (who receives the report of wrong-doing) (Near & Miceli, 1996). Often whistle-blowers face retaliation for their actions which, according to a research by Near & Miceli (1996), correlates to ‘situational characteristics’ and occurs more often when the whistle-blower uses external rather than internal sources of reporting. There is a large literature dedicated wholly to Nancy Olivieri. The several hundred pages of reports were written-“Naimark Report” commissioned by the HSC, “Thompson report” commissioned by CAUT and “Report of inquiry committee” of CPSO (Schafer, 2004).
In this case, a large health services organization (HSO) in Florida, that has a world-renowned AIDS treatment center had information breach of 4,000 HIV+ patient records, and the list was sent to newspapers, magazines, and the internet. Consequently, this issue was featured in every media vehicle in the world and as CEO, you are requested by the board of trustees to come up a better management information system (MIS) to resolve all information security issues or you will face termination. After hiring an undercover computer security consultant to help determine where the security leak came from, she quickly identifies numerous breaches in computer security and provides a report with the issues identified. The report furnished by the consultant revealed that facility had major problems with the MIS and the staff. In order to determine how to address the issues, the CEO must first answer the following questions: what law is being violated by the employees, why was this law enacted, what are the penalties for such violations, what are the penalties for sharing celebrity information, and should he be updating his resume and looking for another job (Buchbinder, 378).
Which allows employees that have observed any illegal acts or acts that raise concern to be able to report to a company hotline that allows that individual to report with the secrecy of the act without fear of retaliation from the company. Generally, whistleblowers are employees that are dedicated to the company and is a model employee. They do not have any intentions of hurting the company, but rather to improve the company. By having an anonymous reporting method of any situations allows employees to feel that the company values their opinions and actually care what is happening within the company. Another reason that this is a plus is because this keeps everybody honest, since there is an open door policy of reporting any illegal acts. The best way to implement this protocol is to educate employees on what the purpose of the program is. Then train the employees on the simple reporting procedures and certify that everything is clearly written and efficiently understood. When the complaint has reported an Ombudsperson or manager will report the matter to upper management to conduct an internal investigation. When all is done and the complaint is true, then actions will be done to correct the problems. In this case of the secretary being fired for refusal to prepare false expense reports for her boss, there is no need for her to be terminated instead this allows the creation of the whistle-blowing hotline for the company to investigate any illegal acts within the
would let them in on the corruption that when on. The firm had a tight control
What are the three or four most important drivers of Microsoft’s business model over the past 10 to 15 years that have accounted for the company’s spectacular results?
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In the report, the first issue describe Hewlett-Packard Corporation was involved into an investigation of spying and pretexting by a congressional federal. According to Hyatt (2007), Patricia Dunn, who was the chairwoman in HP, illegally obtained the private phone records and some of the employee’s information which using the pretexting method led to HP corporation internal leaks. In the second issue, in his article, Hurd on the Street, Booth (2010) describes Mark Hurd, who was the chief executive officer in HP, was got fired on account of intentionally faked financial sta...
In the recent past, there have been several employees who have brought to light corrupt and unethical business practices on the part of their employer. Whistleblowers are known as internal and external individuals who disclose their firms’ illegal behavior. When faced with such an accusation, some companies have tried retaliating against the informer (Beatty 743). As a result of these cases, there are numerous laws that exist that protect employees from retaliation. Within this paper, the most significant whistleblowing protection statutes and acts will be discussed, as well as, important cases, and the ethics behind whistleblowing.
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