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A principlist framework for cybersecurity ethics
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“To help motivate ICT compliance, students need more education around cybersecurity risks (Snyder, 2004), the content of ICT policies, the importance of intellectual property rights (Kruger, 2003), and the ethical foundations of ICT and cybersecurity policies (Formosa et al., 2021).”
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“in applied ethics a more common approach, especially in an educational context, is the use of principlist frameworks (Formosa et al., 2021).”
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- Authors
- Formosa, P., Wilson, M., & Richards, D.
- Affiliations
- Macquarie University (AU)
- Murdoch University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Formosa, Paul
- Venue
- Computers & Security
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-10
- Volume
- 109
- Pages
- 102382
- ISSN
- 0167-4048 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3173450473
- Cited by
- 105
- References
- 87
- Citations by year
- 2026: 16 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 2
- FWCI
- 15.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Computers & Security (publishedVersion)
- Murdoch University Research Portal (submittedVersion)
- PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Australian Research Council
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Information and Cyber Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Ethics in Business and Education
- Keywords
- cybersecurity ethics, ethical principles, beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, justice, explainability, penetration testing, DDoS attacks, ransomware, system administration, ethical expertise
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