Imagine you are the project manager of a new application tha…
Imagine you are the project manager of a new application that is going to be launched in two weeks that will likely earn the company a significant market share for this application space if launched on time. During final review, your team’s cyber security expert informs the team that the application is subject to a new security exploit that could leave customer’s information exposed, violating federal regulations if a data breach occurs. Modifying the system to close this exploit would require a one-month delay in product launch and likely cost the company significant sales. Your team’s cyber security expert suggests that the team launch the application on time and push out a system patch next month to close the exploit. He explains, the exploit was just published and is likely not known by many cyber criminals, so the risk of a data breach is small. Based on this scenario, respond to the following two questions: Is your cyber security expert’s recommendation unethical? Support your conclusion based on one or more of the frameworks (virtue, deontology, utilitarianism) discussed in class. Assume that you believe the recommendation is unethical, how would you deal with it and why?
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