Part 1

Prior to beginning work on this discussion read Chapter 4 from the text, the Will Your Company’s Electronic Records Storage Withstand Legal Scrutiny? (Links to an external site.) article, and review any relevant information from this week’s lecture.

One of the more important duties of a CIO, both to their company and their company’s customers, is to maintain data accurately. As a CIO, despite your best intentions, accidents and mistakes can happen (e.g., data can get corrupted, human error, hardware failure, etc.). Reusing or circulating inaccurate data, especially personal information, can have many negative consequences for the company, the customers, and for the CIO. Additionally, hackers and security threats can compromise the integrity of your company’s data. For your initial post, you will take on the role of a CIO and address the following elements for your company that manages the personal information for its 100,000 customers:

• Explain the importance of maintaining the accuracy of customers’ personal information.
• Explain how maintaining accurate personal information affects the privacy of a company’s customers.
• Explain the ramifications on a customer’s privacy when an organization poorly maintains customer information.

Your initial post should be a minimum 250 words.

Part 2

Prior to beginning work on this interactive assignment read Chapter 4 from the text. Review the instructions below and research at least one additional scholarly and/or credible professional source to support your statements. (Access the MISM Credible Resource Guide (Links to an external site.) for assistance with finding appropriate credible professional resources.)

Most employee handbooks for large organizations notify employees that there is no expectation of privacy for employees in their digital work activities (e.g., accessing documents and programs on a company network or looking at websites on a company network) and work communications (e.g., emails or work cell phone usage).

For this interactive assignment, you are the CIO of a new organization and you are tasked with building a new IT group. As part of your research, you are asked to do the following:

• Research an example of the Employee Privacy section of an employee handbook that addresses digital work activities and communication.
  • State the origin of the information.
  • Analyze this section’s effectiveness for notifying employees of privacy expectations while they use company owned or operated work resources.
• Create your own Employee Privacy section (using your own words).
  • Explain why your section is an improvement from the example you shared above.

Your initial post should be a minimum of 300 words.