Answer the following questions 1Explain why master data mana

Answer the following questions

1.Explain why master data management is so important in companies that have multiple data sources?

2. An information security manager routinely monitored Web Surfing among her company\'s employees. She discovered that many employees were visiting the \"sinful six\" web sites (Note: The \"sinful six\" are web sites with material related to pornography, gambling, hate, illegal activities, tastelessness and violence.) She then prepared a list of the employees and their surfing histories and gave the list to management. Some managers punished their employees. Some employees, in turn, objected to the monitoring claiming that they should have a right to privacy. With this in mind, please answer the following two questions: (a) Is monitoring of web surfing by managers ethical, (it is legal to do this)? -- Support your answer. (b) Is employee web surfing on the \"sinful six\" ethical? Support your answers.

Solution

Answer:

1)

Master data management:

master data management is one of the key features of enterprise data management.

Hence, master data management is important in an organization.

2)

a)

Yes, monitoring of web surfing is ethical and an important duty of both network administrator and Information Security managers too. Any unethical use of the system can be detected only by scrutinizing the system. Though in the given scenario, some employees think it to be intrusion of their privacy but using organizational resources for their own private uses, and that too surfing pornographic sites, in office hours is completely unethical both professionally and morally. As the company must have female employees too and surfing pornography in front of them has high probability of causing embarrassment to them. Company has provided the computer and internet connection for official works only but using them for own personal use is at all not acceptable. Hence it is the employees’ duty to use office provided computer and internet connection for office works only and not to stray into one of the “sinful six” websites.

b)

No, it is not ethical on part of the employee to surf sites like “sinful six”. Firstly, the organization must definitely have female employees and surfing pornographic sites will definitely cause embarrassment to them. Secondly, the computer and internet resources provided by the company are for official purpose only. Wasting company resources and time on visiting sites related to pornography, gambling is not ethical for employees. Thirdly, several companies have clearly stated policies on refraining use of official IT resources on visiting sites especially related to pornography or gambling. Hence visiting “sinful six” site is also breaching the company policy. Fourthly, most of the pornographic or gambling sites contain viruses, and visiting those sites may in all probability resulted into company IT resources being infected. Fifthly, hackers to steal information from other computer resources mostly use the pornographic or gambling sites. So visiting such sites also make your organization resources highly prone to hacking attacks and may result into stealing of confidential information.