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Ethical and Social Issues Relating to Information Systems
Team D
BIS/320
Names
Instructor
Date
, 2
Introduction
We live in a time of civilization that has been deeply affected by information systems. Due
to information systems’ ability to gather, process, store, distribute, and operate large amounts of
information. It is imperative we honor both the social and ethical implications of the information
system in our company.
Security
We understand that an intelligence system is only as useful as it is secure. To properly
secure our enterprise system, we must put a policy in place that adds accountability as well as
standards to the process of objective decision-making and enterprise resource planning (ERP).
In other words, we must do more than merely implementing an enterprise system and an ERP to
get objective decision-making data, we must also have a model that checks those data protocols.
According to the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems (2014), “The
approach just described is based on the resource-event-agent (REA) model …, which was
developed by McCarthy and his colleagues in the business and accounting community to
describe business systems” (Karimi, Cowan, & Alencar, 2014, para. 11). This model takes
information and puts it into policy sets, which are then put through a model checker. “The
properties are then inputted to the model checker, and the output from the program will
determine if the property is valid” (Karimi, et. al., 2014, para. 11). This process then evaluates
our software’s decision-making policies against physical processes, enabling protocols that
ensure secure and valid information.
Ethics
With the ever changing environment in the technological world industries are finding that
with these advances are also heightened ethical concerns. With the introduction of technology in
Ethical and Social Issues Relating to Information Systems
Team D
BIS/320
Names
Instructor
Date
, 2
Introduction
We live in a time of civilization that has been deeply affected by information systems. Due
to information systems’ ability to gather, process, store, distribute, and operate large amounts of
information. It is imperative we honor both the social and ethical implications of the information
system in our company.
Security
We understand that an intelligence system is only as useful as it is secure. To properly
secure our enterprise system, we must put a policy in place that adds accountability as well as
standards to the process of objective decision-making and enterprise resource planning (ERP).
In other words, we must do more than merely implementing an enterprise system and an ERP to
get objective decision-making data, we must also have a model that checks those data protocols.
According to the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems (2014), “The
approach just described is based on the resource-event-agent (REA) model …, which was
developed by McCarthy and his colleagues in the business and accounting community to
describe business systems” (Karimi, Cowan, & Alencar, 2014, para. 11). This model takes
information and puts it into policy sets, which are then put through a model checker. “The
properties are then inputted to the model checker, and the output from the program will
determine if the property is valid” (Karimi, et. al., 2014, para. 11). This process then evaluates
our software’s decision-making policies against physical processes, enabling protocols that
ensure secure and valid information.
Ethics
With the ever changing environment in the technological world industries are finding that
with these advances are also heightened ethical concerns. With the introduction of technology in
