Assignment

What is Intellectual property?

• Intellectual property are legal property rights over creations of the mind, both artistic and commercial, and the corresponding fields of law. Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary, and artistic works; ideas, discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs. Common types of intellectual property include copyrights, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights and trade secrets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property


What is Intellectual property rights?

• It is an exclusive right given by the State to the owner/creator of an immaterial object for a certain period of time. Examples of such immaterial objects are inventions, designs, literary works, computer programs - i.e.any creations of the human mind, transformable into a material form. Mostly they are referred to as immaterial property, because they are derived from ideas being registered and used in trade. The intellectual property rights are divided in four domains, which are Trade Marks, Copyright, Patents and Designs according to the objects for which the protection is sought.

http://www.thedti.gov.za/faq/faqdetail.asp?faqid=176

-what is Perpetrator-
Perpetrator
- The entity from the external environment that is taken to be the cause of a risk. An entity in the external environment that performs an attack, ex: hacker.

-what is Cyber Terrorist-
Cyber Terrorist
- A programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of a cyber terrorism.

-what is Cyber Criminal-
Cyber Criminal
- are persons that committed crime using a computer and the internet to steal a person's identity or sell contraband or stalk victims or disrupt operations with malevolent programs.

source: http://thefreedictionary.com, www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/pubs/compsecurity/glossary.html,

Are I.T Information Technology (I.T) workers profesionals?

Yes, because when they took and finished their degree to become a professionals in the society. But being a professional is not easy, you have a duty to do. Professionals are those people who are doing things that can help others and the society. Being a professional you must use your knowledge to contribute things that can help the society to inprove. They are those person who are responsible on program writing or designing system where computer is involved. We know that we are the modern world now and computer is the useful technology that has been created. Being a professionals they helping our country to compete in the other in country in the field of computer. They are also helping our country to become industrialized and progress. As my research below show's the work's of an I.T Professional;

A Information Technology (IT) under direct supervision is responsible for, but not limited to, the following essential job functions: assists technical and professional staff performing a wide-range of system hardware and software end-user support, including problem diagnosis and resolution; provides installation and support of hardware and software; provides technical support for personal computers and local area network components; moves and relocates computer related equipment; performs inventory and stock management of supplies; assists in programming and software development, as needed; assists IT professional staff in the configuration, preparation or upgrade of routers and switches on County computer data networks, as needed.

Source:https://easier.co.la.ca.us/jobs/cfscripts/Bulletin.cfm?ExamNo=R2482A&Bulletin=07-059

Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics

1.) Thou shall not use a computer to harm other people.
2.) Thou shall not interfere with other people's computer work.
3.) Thou shall not snoop around in the other people's files.
4.) Thou shall not use a computer to steal.
5.) Thou shall not use a computer to bear a false witness.
6.) Thou shall not use or copy software for which you have not paid.
7.) Thou shall not use other people's computer resources without authorization.
8.) Thou shall not appropriate other people's intellectual output.
9.) Thou shall not think about the social consequences of the program you write.
10.) Thou shall use a computer in ways that show consideration and respect.

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments_of_Computer_Ethics
Courtesy of Computer Ethics Institute