Impact of Ethics on the Corporate Information Assets Protection Program (CIAPP)

There is a direct and, one hopes, obvious relationship between ethical conduct and all that it implies and the CIAPP. Remember, if everyone followed the rules, you would not have a job. If the vast majority of corporate employees followed the rules, you would have less work. Although you will never become obsolete in the world of corporate information and information systems assets protection, wouldn't it be nice to at least get your workload down to the lowest possible level? You would then require less staff, and by having less staff, you would have fewer staff problems to deal with.

Think of it. Less work, less staff, less of a budget to justify, and fewer complaints from employees about how the CIAPP is adversely affecting their work. You could work a regular 8-hour day, weekends off, no night-time telephone calls, less stress. Ah, wouldn't life be grand? All that you must do is get everyone to always be ethical. In doing so, they would comply with the CIAPP by protecting the company's assets as if the assets were their own. Yes, if only. . . . However, that is the goal. That is what everyone in the corporation should have as a baseline goal—follow ethical and business standards of conduct by following a code of ethics.