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.
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).
documented and stored for investigative purposes only, there will be no public access to the
Second part is having all records available for any department to request when it is pertaining to new employment. Especially
Goodin, Dan. "Target Hackers Reportedly Used Credentials Stolen from Ventilation Contractor." Ars Technica. Conde Nast Digital, 5 Feb. 2014. Web. 25 Feb. 2014. .
Organizations that are more established and prosperous will have a more favorable way of looking at acts of whistleblowing and will have more resources at its disposal to devote to investigate the claims of the whistleblowers. On the other hand those firms which are less prosperous may see acts of whistleblowing as a threat to their existence and, have a hostile climate in general towards whistleblowing. The acts of whistleblowing may be perceived differently by different people in the organization. The superiors and the supervisors of the whistleblower may see such an act as questioning their ability, integrity and conduct. The fellow employees and colleagues may perceive the whistleblower as being disloyal to the company and the owners and the top management may see it as an effort on the part of the whistleblower to destroy the organizational image and threaten its stability. It is thus difficult to predict the outcomes across organizations in case of whistleblowing. A number of factors determine the outcome but these factors and the outcome itself vary from organization to organization and from individual to individual (Paul and Townsend,
It is estimated that somewhere between half and two-thirds of all whistleblowers lose their jobs. In general, the more systematic the wrongdoing within an organization, the greater the reprisal against those who expose it. (Dictionary definition of a whistleblower: a person who reports or discloses information of a threat or harm to the public interest in the context of their work-based relationship.)
About 15 million United States residents have their identities and information used fraudulently each year. Along the use of their identities, they also had a combined financial loss totaling up to almost $50 billion. Major companies such as Apple, Verizon, Target, Sony, and many more have been victims of consumer information hacking. In each of the cases, millions of consumers’ personal information has been breached. In the article “Home Depot 's 56 Million Card Breach Bigger Than Target 's” on September 18, 2014, 56 million cards were breached due to cyber attackers. Before the Home Depot attack, Target had 40 million cards breached. Company’s information is constantly being breached and the consumers’ are the ones who end up having to pay the price. If a company cannot protect the information it takes, then it should not collect the information.
The definition of a whistleblower is a past or pesent employee or member of an organization, who reports misconduct to people or entities that have the power and presumed willingness to take corrective action, or to notify the general public of wrongdoing. In most cases, whistleblowers are employees of the ogranization but can be employees of government agencies as well. Normally the misconduct being reported is a violation of law, rule, regulation and/or a direct threat to public interest such as fraud, health, safety violations, and corruption. The word whistleblower originates from the old practice of English bobbies who would blow their whistle when they noticed a crime that was being committed. The blowing of the whistle would alert both law enforcement officers and the general public of danger. (Wikipedia, 2007).
would let them in on the corruption that when on. The firm had a tight control
A whistleblower is a person who brings to notice any illegal act, fraud or misconduct prevailing with a company or organization. There are multiple situations involving wrongdoing by the government official, or your supervisor or the company itself wherein common people like you and me may feel like reporting and exposing the wrongdoers. The feeling of being a part of the wrongful acts of fraud or misconduct may cause someone to be a whistleblower and expose the unethical people. A whistleblower may be an employee, auditor, lawyer, ex-employee or customer of the company. Being a whistleblower is not easy and glamourous as it sounds! The grim reality of a whistleblower’s life is well described by C. Fred Alford in his book ‘Whistleblowers:
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...
Our clients and other parties with whom we do business entrust the company with important information relating to their businesses. It is our policy that all information considered confidential will not be disclosed to external parties or to employees without a “need to know.” If an employee questions whether certain information is considered confidential, he/she should first check with his/her immediate supervisor.
In the corporate world, whistleblowers receive up to 25 percent of the proceeds of legal report of events against firms that misconducts. Payouts like these are becoming a lot more common. An example is Keith Edwards, whom recently received $63.9 million payout for his whistleblowing against J.P. Morgan Chase. His tip made them pay $614 to the U.S. Government for illegally accepting thousands of FHA loans and hundreds of VA loans.
Cyber crime has become an important concern for not only the business firms, government, law enforcement agencies but also for the common people because these kinds of issues are related to the consumer’s day-to-day activity (Polivanyuk, 2005). Due to these types of crimes, consumer’s money, children, business organization’s integrity, consumer and company’s privacy, etc. are in danger.