Hrm/531 Week 2

Every business is required by law to have some form of security policy in place that will protect their customer’s information. How robust these policies are, may, and do, differ from company to company and can depend on many different factors unique to each individual business. Information security is very important and at my widget company it would be my responsibility and ethical duty to do everything in my power to find out how my system was breached and exactly what customers information was compromised as well as who is responsible for taking this information. I would also be ethically responsible for finding out which employees have not been adhering to the company's security policy and accessing customer information when it was not part of their duties, and under what circumstances this happened. Where these employees instructed to do this or did the do it of their own accord and if so reprimand these individuals up to and including termination of their employment with my company. Also I would be responsible for insuring that that rest of my employees received proper training on security to ensure that there will not be anyone taking a nonchalant attitude toward security in the future. I would also be …show more content…
It would also make those companies look at their current guidelines for employees that they have regarding information security and update them or replace them with newer more efficient guidelines. Improving a company’s security policy and guidelines will only help them stay ahead of the people who try to take advantage of the weakness that they can find in these policies. In conclusion, as long as there are information systems, there will be those out there trying to steal that information, so all business are ethically responsible for doing everything they can to protect this