Reference no: EM133585963
Data Security and Ethics
Assessment - The tension between compliance and innovation
Assessment Description: You are being considered for a job as a Compliance Officer by a company and charged with writing recommendations to its Board of Directors' Data Ethics Committee to decide on:
A. Adopting a new technology solution that addresses a specific business need, and
B. The opportunities and risks of this technology in terms of privacy, cybersecurity and ethics
Your Task
• Choose a company to which you will make the above recommendation. You must choose a company which starts with the same letter as the first letter your first or last name.
• Complete Part A and B below:
Part B (Case Study): Students are to write a 700-word case study and submit it as a Microsoft word
Assessment Instructions
PART A:
Record yourself doing the video quiz using zoom screen share.
1) In Week 4 class your lecturer will take you through how to record a video using Zoom (instructions on MyKBS under assessment table)
2) You will log into zoom using the instructions, share your screen and start recording.
3) You will then enter the "Video quiz" on MyKBS where you will need to:
• Complete Multiple Choice and short answer questions relating to the content from Topics 1-4 of the subjects.
4) Once you start the quiz you will have 30 minutes to complete it. You can start it anytime between 10am Monday to 5pm Wednesday, Week 5.
5) No backtracking is allowed. Once you complete a question you cannot go back to the previous one.
6) You need to review Weeks 1-4 of class content, chose a company and technology for Part B and be prepared to explain your answers.
PART B: Case Study
You have applied for a job as a Compliance Officer for a large company. (You must choose a company which starts with the same letter as the first letter your first or last name). You have been tasked with writing recommendations to its Board of Directors' Data Ethics Committee to decide about:
a) Adopting a new technology solution that addresses a company need, and
b) The opportunities and risks of this technology in terms of privacy, cybersecurity, regulations and ethics and how this might affect the feasibility of the project
Your answers to the above two questions will be presented in a case study to your chosen company. See suggested structure below:
Case Study Section Content
Introduction Introduction about the use of new technologies in the organization you are applying for a job in (your pick of IoT, AI, blockchain, or secure web payments etc.) and explaining how it can enhance company performance. Example sources:
Arguing the Pros and Cons of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare:
Rethinking risk and compliance for the Age of AI:
Privacy, cybersecurity, and data ethics: Opportunities and risks
Outline opportunities and possible cybersecurity, privacy and ethical
risks associated with the use of the proposed technology.
Outline how these risks and opportunities affect the viability of this technology
References and structure
Use the Harvard referencing style.
Use appropriate headings and paragraphs.