Evaluating Ethics and Security Within an Organization

Evaluating Ethics and Security 1

Evaluating Ethics and Security within an Organization

Kathy Thacker

MGT330

Professor Keith Wade

4-21-2013

Evaluating Ethics and Security 2

What are the security measures currently in place for Sheetz, for the employees, the customers, and Sheetz itself?

For the following things, personal privacy, trade secrets, human error, hacking, monitoring, natural disasters, etc. Sheetz has a Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan for both store operations and our corporate locations.  These and reviewed and updated annually. Our technology security department works to ensure that our computer resources (and data) are protected and all appropriate measures and monitoring are taking place to secure data and information.  As a retailer that accepts credit cards, Sheetz must go through a PCI review annually (protection of customer credit card data). ( Wenner, J. Personal communication. April 19, 2013)

Let’s take a look at the business continuity. Just to explain what it is. Business continuity plans keep the business up and running during power outages, IT system crashes, natural disasters, supply chain problems and more. Employees are trained to handle these problems and to know how to do it in a calm and collective fashion. ( Slater, D.)

What are the typical security problems your selected organization might face, given the information systems currently in place?

The biggest issues that Sheetz face are malware and hacking attempts. Malware is software that is designed to do harm to a computer system. Examples of malware are viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and spyware. Let’s take a look what each one is. Viruses can delete files or directory information that is on a computer’s hard drive. Worms are...