Ethics, Education, and Certification for IT Auditors Please respond to the following:

• Take a position on whether you would want to pursue a career as an IT auditor. Explain why or why not. Determine if you would recommend this career to your family and friends. Explain why or why not.
• Identify what you believe is the single most significant challenge of being a qualified IT auditor and speculate how you would address this challenge.

Being an IT Audit Please respond to the following:

• Imagine you are an IT auditor with your own professional practice. Identify three techniques learned from this class that you could apply to your practice. Explain how each item would improve the practice.
• List at least three best practices of being an IT auditor. Identify the practice you feel is most useful for an IT auditor and explain why.

Managing Project Closure  Please respond to the following:

• Identify events that could delay the closing of a project or phase. Evaluate which event you believe would cause the longest delay and explain why. Provide an example to justify your answer.
• Recommend proactive measures and actions that can be performed to minimize delays during the closure process of a project. Provide a brief example / scenario that demonstrates how this could be achieved.

Evaluating Project Performance  Please respond to the following:

• Suggest activities that can be performed by the project manager in order to evaluate individual performance, project planning, and how well the project met the measureable organization value (MOV). Discuss how these activities ensure project success of future projects and add value to the project portfolio of the organization. Explain how analyzing these items helps project managers expand skills and experience.
• Describe the focus areas that a post-mortem review should consider. Suggest three metrics that could be used to assess each focus area listed and provide reasoning for your suggestions.

Privacy Challenges Please respond to the following:

• The United Arab Emirates (UAE) threatened to shut off BlackBerry messaging, email and Web browsing services if the device’ s maker, Research in Motion (RIM), did not provide certain information necessary for national security. RIM was caught between not disclosing confidential information and not endangering UAE’s national security. Give your opinion on whether RIM should have given in to UAE’s demands or whether it should have protected the confidential information. Support your position.
• Imagine you are a mid-level manager working for a well-known international organization and have http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdkYieDuVvY)
• Some supermarkets use loyalty programs which enable them to collect data about the shopping patterns of their customers. Suppose that an insurance company wanted to buy this data from the supermarket in order to analyze the behavior of its policyholders. Determine whether or not the insurance company should be allowed to buy the data. Support your position.

Ehics

Activity Description

Prepare a paper in which you evaluate the Tyco International case study provided in Kaplan (2009)and Stephen et al. (2012). Be sure to address the following in your paper:

Briefly summarize the historical scenario surrounding Tyco International.
How do you think the spending and the loans were able to go on for so long?
Evaluate the outcome of events.
Was the punishment justified? Why or why not?
Is it difficult for us to see ethical breaches that we ourselves commit?
Support your paper with a minimum of five (5) scholarly resources in addition to required resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Length: 5-7 pages not including title and reference pages

Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts that are presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.
Introduction:

The Price of Unethical Behavior

We have learned that many argue if and to what degree that social responsibility should be considered in businesses. Unfortunately, there are many cases that clearly and definitively cross ethical (and legal) lines. In these cases, including the Tyco International case examined below, the price these CEOs, companies, and stakeholders pay can be quite high.

Review the resources listed in the Books and Resources area below to prepare for this week’s assignment(s).

Complete the following Spotlight on Skills if you need assistance with the tools used to complete your assignments.

Spotlight on Skills: Develop your Logical Thinking and Argumentative Skills
In this assignment, you will be called upon to present your ideas, make arguments, and defend a point of view. All of this calls for research based evidence, as well as logical thinking skills that provide the framework for presenting this evidence. To begin, develop your logical thinking skills through first considering the developmental stages of your own thinking: Developing as rational persons: Viewing our development in stages. Then, review the Jones, R, (2010) article to learn more about what constitutes a good argument.

Books and Resources for this Week:
Articles
Reference Instruction
Kaplan, D. A. (2009). Koz makes his case.
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Stephens, W., Vance, C., & Pettegrew, L. (2012). Embracing ethics and morality.
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Ehics

Activity Description

Prepare a paper in which you evaluate the Tyco International case study provided in Kaplan (2009)and Stephen et al. (2012). Be sure to address the following in your paper:

Briefly summarize the historical scenario surrounding Tyco International.
How do you think the spending and the loans were able to go on for so long?
Evaluate the outcome of events.
Was the punishment justified? Why or why not?
Is it difficult for us to see ethical breaches that we ourselves commit?
Support your paper with a minimum of five (5) scholarly resources in addition to required resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Length: 5-7 pages not including title and reference pages

Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts that are presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.
Introduction:

The Price of Unethical Behavior

We have learned that many argue if and to what degree that social responsibility should be considered in businesses. Unfortunately, there are many cases that clearly and definitively cross ethical (and legal) lines. In these cases, including the Tyco International case examined below, the price these CEOs, companies, and stakeholders pay can be quite high.

Review the resources listed in the Books and Resources area below to prepare for this week’s assignment(s).

Complete the following Spotlight on Skills if you need assistance with the tools used to complete your assignments.

Spotlight on Skills: Develop your Logical Thinking and Argumentative Skills
In this assignment, you will be called upon to present your ideas, make arguments, and defend a point of view. All of this calls for research based evidence, as well as logical thinking skills that provide the framework for presenting this evidence. To begin, develop your logical thinking skills through first considering the developmental stages of your own thinking: Developing as rational persons: Viewing our development in stages. Then, review the Jones, R, (2010) article to learn more about what constitutes a good argument.

Books and Resources for this Week:
Articles
Reference Instruction
Kaplan, D. A. (2009). Koz makes his case.
http://proxy1.ncu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=45515650&site=ehost-live

Read Article
Stephens, W., Vance, C., & Pettegrew, L. (2012). Embracing ethics and morality.
http://proxy1.ncu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ofs&AN=73784983&site=ehost-live