Is a tool for ethical analysis adapted from Food and Agriculture to the IT context. The columns of the matrix correspond to values held by stakeholders with respect to ethical principles, and the rows correspond to the stakeholders or interest groups. The number of columns and rows varies as required. The cells contain the concerns of the stakeholders (the main criterion that should be met) with respect to the value held (by the stakeholders) or a particular ethical principle.
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Hexa-Dimension Metric, Ethical Matrix, and Cybersecurity
Wanbil William Lee (The Computer Ethics Society, Hong Kong & Wanbil and Asssociates, Hong Kong)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3479-3.ch030
Abstract
Exorbitant spending on cybersecurity continues; hacking proliferates and continues with the aftermath getting more and more damaging, yet data protection must helplessly continue. This is attributable to a vicious circle and culminates in something akin to a chronic disease, aptly called a “chronic problem of data protection.” The situation is complicated by a tripartite relationship, called the “Law-Security-Ethics Connection,” and exacerbated by a muddled view of the key concepts, notably ethics, privacy, and risk, which hinders a wholesome appreciation of the problem. Given the status quo, an ethics-based framework was perceived and developed aiming to lessen the incidence of hacking or make hacking exasperate to mitigate rather than eradicate because hacker-free cyberspace is unrealistic and impossible. This chapter aims to introduce a remedy successively through an exposition of the symptom and cause of the problem, clearing the muddle, and an illustration of the tools: Ethical Matrix and Hexa-Dimension Metric using the Octopus Saga.