There are many ethical issues that arise when individual information is being stored electronically. For many companies, it’s necessary to store some type of information about their customers in order to keep the business running and carry out necessary actions. However, ensuring the security of their customers’ information is absolutely vital. There are certain implications when they fail to protect the personal information of their customers. It compromises their trust, security, and can cause problems such as personally identifiable information being leaked. When businesses fail to protect their customers information it ruins their integrity and gives them an image of unreliability. It’s a company’s responsibility to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of each individual’s personal information. Individuals’ information needs to remain confidential, meaning it is only viewed by those who are authorized. Not only that but its integrity must be ensured as well, so that it is unchanged by any who are unauthorized. Then it must always be available to those individuals, many people could be greatly inconvenienced if they are denied service or access to important information. Terms and conditions of privacy policies must be upheld for the sake of the company’s customers and are legally binding. However, cyberattacks aren’t the only cause for denial of access or loss of availability. Physical events are just as important such as severe weather events. The United States have had blackouts from severe weather events causing as many as 30 million people to lose power resulting from one event or cause. Also, the costs that result from individual events of extreme weather can reach up to one billion dollars. However, some other countries have had outages which affected many more, such as Brazil where in 1999 an outage took power from around 97 million people. The US has many policies in place to act and respond accordingly to security events, which involve the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and The Federal Power Act. Canada also has policies in place to help its citizens and government in the event that cybersecurity is compromised. These would involve the Canadian Department of Justice, Defence Research and Development Canada, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and Canada’s Cyber Security Strategy.

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