Hackers Hell
To deal with hackers who break through office systems through the Internet it is important for information managers to understand their enemy well. If they have sound background knowledge about hackers, they might be prepared to deal with them in a much more effective method. Hackers are very educated often mostly university or high school students who try to break through systems for which they have no authorization. They deal poorly with people, have few friends and less relationships, but at the same time are very smart. Therefore they revert to computers because they know computers will not reject them. With bulletin board communication they can form social relationships but those are behind the screen, where hackers feel shielded. (Pfleeger, pp.12-13) Hackers justify the crime of cracking through systems by stating that nobody gets hurt in this situation. Hacking can be done without having a conflict with any human. Hackers also usually work in groups, and when they do so they become more dangerous to office systems. By sharing information they manage to put together a solution that would allow them to break in a office system. The news media has labeled hackers as mere children who play pranks. (Pfleeger, p.13) Even Amy
To begin with, information managers must maintain guidelines that minimize risk when using the Internet. These guidelines can be in the form of rules for employee Internet usage. The main intent of these guidelines is to limit the use of Internet for business purposes only. Most employees use the Internet for personal reasons such as when they surf sex and pornographic material on the Internet. This not only creates security leaks for the office system, but also makes Olson's Theory a strong phenomena in the office environment. Employees are less productive in their work which results in soft dollar loses for the company. Nonetheless, controlling employee use of the Internet is nonproductive. The solution is to educate employees about the proper use of the Internet, explain them the disadvantage that occur if the Internet is used improperly, yet at the same time accept the fact that employees will still look at web sites that are not business related. Nevertheless, it is wise to develop detailed Internet polices in terms of usage so that employees know the consequences of wrong abuse. (Wagner, p.55) According to Barry Weiss, a partner at Gordon & Glickson, a Chicago law firm that specializes in information technology legal issues, for the Internet to be used as a effective tool for communication companies need "to define policies and procedures to avoid risk." (Wagner, p.58) Another method in which companies can protect their office systems from hackers is by asking employees to develop and maintain smart passwords. Employees should not write down their passwords and leave them near a computer. They should create password which relate to people closely related to them. Also they should not share their password with anyone and near should they store their passwords in the computer. Passwords become hard to crack by hackers when they have both upper case and lower case letters as well as digits and special characters. Further, the should be long and should be able to keyed in quickly so one can follow when typing on the keyboard. (Icove, pp.135-136)
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Approximate Word count = 2535
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
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