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Unit 1

An Overview of Ethics, Ethics for IT Workers and IT Users: [10 LH]

Ethics, Ethics in the Business World; Corporate Social Responsibility; Fostering Corporate Social Responsibility and Good Business Ethics; Improving Business Ethics; Ethical Considerations in Decision Making; Ethics in Information Technology; Managing IT Worker Relationship; Encouraging Professionalism of IT Workers - Professional Codes of Ethics, Professional Organizations, Certifications and Licensing ; Encouraging Ethical Use of IT Resources among Users

Unit 2:

Cyber Attacks, Cybersecurity, and Cyber Law: [12 LH]

Threat Landscape - Computer Incidents, Types of Exploits; CIA Security Triad - Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, ImplementingCIA at Organizational, Network, Application, and End-User Level; Response to Cyber Attack - Incident Notification Protection of Evidence and Activity Logs Incident Containment Eradication Incident Follow-Up Using an MSSP, and Computer Forensics; Cyber Law; Provision of Cyber Law and Electronic Transaction Act of Nepal

Unit 3:

Privacy and Freedom of Expression: [10 LH]

Privacy Protection and the Law - Information Privacy, Privacy Laws, Applications, and Court Rulings; Key Privacy and Anonymity Issues - Consumer Profiling, Electronic Discovery, Workplace Monitoring, Surveillance; First Amendment Rights; Freedom Expressions: Key Issues; Social Networking Ethical Issues

Unit 4:

Intellectual Property: [8 LH]

Intellectual Property, Copyright; Patient; Trade Secrets; Intellectual Property Issues: Plagiarism, Reverse Engineering, Open Source Code, Competitive Intelligence, Trademark Infringement, and Cybersquatting

Unit 5:

Ethical Decision in Software Development and Ethics of IT Organizations: [8 LH]

Software Quality and its Importance; Strategies for Developing Quality Software; Use of Contingent Workers; H-18 Workers; Outsourcing; Whistle-Blowing; Green Computing.

Recommended Books

  1. Ethics in Information Technology, Sixth Edition, George W. Reynolds.

  2. Ethics and Technology: Controversies, Questions, and Strategies for Ethical Computing, Fifth Edition, Herman T. Tavani, John Wiley and Sons, 2016.

  3. Ethics for Information Age, Eighth Edition, Michael J. Quinn, Pearson.