Journal article
A principlist framework for cybersecurity ethics
Computers & Security, Vol.109, Article 102382
2021
Abstract
The ethical issues raised by cybersecurity practices and technologies are of critical importance. However, there is disagreement about what is the best ethical framework for understanding those issues. In this paper we seek to address this shortcoming through the introduction of a principlist ethical framework for cybersecurity that builds on existing work in adjacent fields of applied ethics, bioethics, and AI ethics. By redeploying the AI4People framework, we develop a domain-relevant specification of five ethical principles in cybersecurity: beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, justice, and explicability. We then illustrate the advantages of this principlist framework by examining the ethical issues raised by four common cybersecurity contexts: penetration testing, distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), ransomware, and system administration. These case analyses demonstrate the utility of this principlist framework as a basis for understanding cybersecurity ethics and for cultivating the ethical expertise and ethical sensitivity of cybersecurity professionals and other stakeholders.
Details
- Title
- A principlist framework for cybersecurity ethics
- Authors/Creators
- P. Formosa (Author/Creator) - Macquarie UniversityM. Wilson (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityD. Richards (Author/Creator) - Macquarie University
- Publication Details
- Computers & Security, Vol.109, Article 102382
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Identifiers
- 991005540151707891
- Copyright
- © 2021 Elsevier Ltd.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Law and Criminology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- Computer Science, Information Systems
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