Part 2 book “Database systems - A practical approach to design, implementation, and management” has contents: Transaction management, query processing, replication and mobile databases, web technology and DBMSs, data warehousing concepts, data warehousing design, data mining, and other contents. | chapter 21 Professional, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Data Management Chapter Objectives In this chapter you will learn: • How to define ethical, IT governance, and legal issues in IT. • How to distinguish between legal, IT governance, and ethical issues and situations data/ database administrators face. • How new regulations are placing additional requirements and responsibilities on data/database administrators. • How legislation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Basel II accords affect data/database administration functions. • Best practices for preparing for and supporting auditing, IT governance, and compliance functions. • Intellectual property (IP) issues related to IT and data/database administration. As discussed in Chapter 20, data and database administrators should be well versed in issues related to the day-to-day internal control over growing volumes of organizational data. Such managers, however, will increasingly find themselves delving deeply into the relatively unfamiliar territory of legal and ethical compliance. With the increased scrutiny of corporations brought on by the massive scandals emerging in the past several years (for example, Enron and WorldCom in the United States and Parmalat in Europe) have come new laws and regulations that will bring about significant changes in the way organizations operate. The rise in cases of identity theft has likewise brought increased scrutiny upon data management practices. In the context of this book, the impact of legal and ethical issues on the IT functions quite often revolves around the management of data. The aim of this chapter is therefore to define the underlying issues, to illustrate the data management context in which these issues present themselves, and to provide best practices for data and database administrators with respect to these issues. 641 641 04/06/14 9:41 AM 642 | Chapter 21 Professional,
