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Business Ethics

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I think that the debate went really well in terms of the information that was brought forth by everyone and how no matter what side you were on it was easy to relate to what everyone was talking about their side of the argument because there was no right or wrong on this topic it was very opinionative to what your experience was like with it which leads me to where I stand on the matter. I personally think that we should remain remote. I still feel as if its too soon to return to the world even though we’ve been separated for about a year now and for me personally, I’ve benefitted from being remote. It has been very convenient for me during this pandemic to have such a flexible school schedule and be able to get all my daily life responsibilities. I’ve probably accomplished more while being remote than I had ever while being in person but at some point I do want to return to how it used to be because for most people it was better that way and to say I don’t miss it would be a lie.

Risk Management Assignment

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Jaylen Santana                                                                                                            April 18, 2021

Bus 311                                                                                                                       Prof. Buckler

 

Cyber Risk Management

It is no secret that COVID-19 has taken its toll on the world and continues to take a toll on the world. Within businesses we have seen that many of them have had to go remote in order to safely continue operating which in and of itself has brought about its own complications. A major issue that businesses have now had to worry about more than ever is a cyber incident which could be extremely damaging to a company if the cybersecurity risks are neglected.

The restrictions that have been imposed by governments in response to the coronavirus pandemic encouraged employees to work from home, or better yet stay at home. As a direct consequence of this, technology has now more than ever become important to both our working and personal lives alike. Despite the drastic need for technology, many companies still do not provide a cyber safe working environment. Reported figures from the June 2020 NCSC (National Cyber Security Center) showed that there were 350 reported cases of cyberattacks which included phishing, fraudulent web sites, direct attacks on companies, etc. in April compared to the norm of 100-150. The pandemic alongside the increase in working from home were seen as a major cause of this increase.

Cyber-attackers see the pandemic as an opportunity to really put their criminal activity into overdrive by using the vulnerability of employees working from home and capitalizing on people’s strong interest of coronavirus-related news such as fake coronavirus related websites. It is also important to consider that the average cost of a data breach resulting from remote working could be as much as $137,000. On July 8th, the City of London Police reported that January 2020 more than 11 million dollars had been lost due to COVID-19 scams and in Switzerland, 1 in 7 respondents to a survey had experienced a cyberattack during the pandemic period. This becomes apparent when you bring up the fact that 47% of individuals fall for a phishing scam while working at home.

How companies can prevent these cyberattacks from occurring include providing employees with a license to antivirus and malware software for use on their personal computers which does not provide fail safe protection, but it eliminates many low-level attacks. Another way that companies can prevent cyber-attacks from occurring include cyber security and phishing awareness which implies that staff should be briefed on the best practices and procedures to regulate the sending of emails or other content to private email addresses and checking the authenticity of the sender’s addresses when receiving emails. Some more advanced measures that can that companies can take include applying new technology and tools such as host checking (a tool to check the security posture of an endpoint before authorizing access to corporate information systems) to reinforce the security of remote working and intelligence techniques meaning businesses should encourage the use of cyber threat intelligence to identify relevant indicators of attacks and address known attacks.

As for my willingness to work at an organization I think that due to these new threats I am going to stay away from big companies or organizations because its personally makes me feel uneasy and unsafe knowing that most companies are not equipped to handle many cyber-attacks. On the other hand, I think it is good that the pandemic has brought light to the cyber security issues that companies have had but had not put much focus into since before going remote.

Retention Assignment

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  1. I think the most demotivating part of Harper’s job is the fact that she is now doing twice the work now that Jose is gone but is still behind so its as if she isn’t making any real progress and is always playing catch up.

 

  1. If I was an HR manager the advice I would give David is to give Harper a schedule of availability that he has in order to meet with her one on one so he may answer any questions or concerns that she has so she can be guided better, but also to possibly have the talk about her taking over Jose’s position and getting a promotion.

 

  1. The downside of losing Harper is that you would have to hire and teach a new person what Harper knows how to do very well and also the amount of work that would have to be made up from losing now two employees would be too much to make up.

 

Of the eight effective retention strategies I believe the best one that would work best in Harper’s situation is number 4 which is Create a Culture of Open Communication considering how that was a big point for her with her previous boss Jose.

Women’s Rights Assignment

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Jaylen Santana                                                                                                        February 7, 2021

Bus 311-1900                                                                                                             Prof. Buckler

 

Equal Rights in the US

In the film On The Basis of Sex we get a in depth view on the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her fight against gender discrimination for women in the 1960’s. We get to watch as Ruth fights her way through law school at Harvard and Colombia all while being one of the total nine women in her class. It is in doing this that we get to see her challenging the societal norm of a woman’s role in the world at that time.

Ruth did not let society stop her from achieving her goal of being a lawyer, despite being in an occupation that was by far dominated and respected as a male industry occupation. She was motivated by the injustices that were the law and demanded that her voice was heard among her colleagues and professors, which helped not deter her despite being turned down over twelve times by law firms because she was a woman. Her resilient spirit led her to overturn many laws that dealt with gender discrimination allowing women to live their lives more freely without being constrained to a certain lifestyle.

Although she had a profound impact on women’s rights there is still a lot of work to be done as women still suffer from gender discrimination to this day. A big current day inequality women deal with is, a wage gap within jobs that are shared with men. Women still make just 78 cents for every dollar that is earned by a man. Similar to Ruth, these women will earn less despite being just as qualified if not more qualified than their male counterpart. This is especially detrimental to all the women in our current day that have the job of providing for their family as single mothers.

Women injustice is still a looming issue in today’s world, but if it were not for Ruth starting the engine to demand change and equality, women would still be perceived as housewives and caregivers.