Answer to Question #175986 in English for Jean Claude

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a) Ethics are standards of right and wrong, good and bad. What makes the difference in ethical behavior is when one has to either “walk the talk” or “talk the walk”. In illustrated concrete terms, what do the above expressions mean?

b) Cyber Security refers to the protection and security of networks and systems. Discuss into some details how the three elements of Cyber security are fundamental in curbing cybercrime.

c) There is quite a number of ways through which corruption can be prevented in Africa. Using concrete examples, kindly identify and analyze at least four ways through which corruption can be prevented within the Ghanaian context.

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A.   Walk the talk and talk the walk are phrases which have the same meaning. It means that a person’s words should be aligned with the actions. For instance if someone claims to be a Christian and talks about living holy, their actions should portray what they claim to be.

B.    Technology -is very key in curbing cyber security by adopting both hardware and software that are affordable and good in terms of aspects like operating systems and applications.

 Policy- the policies should be easy simple and easy to understand. The policies should be compliant to the industry, privacy and privacy concerns.

 People – staff should undergo training where by the get to understand safe browsing, using email securely and also use of cloud services to minimize the likely of cybercrimes. Secondly, keeping up with trends and the latest security threats and finding ways on how to prevent the threats from future happening.

C) The following ways were suggested during the anti-corruption summit in London in hope of decreasing corruption in Ghana.

First, the public should know the shares and profits from public companies, trusts and other governmental entities. In that way they will be able to know the performances and how the resources are being used.

Secondly, strict rules to prevent corrupt money from being consumed on possessions and luxury goods.

Thirdly, companies should reveal how much tax they pay in every country they do business in thus the government is able to know then income flow.

Fourthly, making available all government budgets to the public for transparency and also ensuring strict audit of all the governmental entities.

Lastly companies involved in oil, gas, construction and minerals industries were to make detailed payments to any government entity.