Description
Network sniffing is the act of observing communications on the network in either a passive or an active mode. With sniffing, you can see what is being transmitted unprotected on the network and potentially intercept sensitive information. Attackers use sniffers to compromise the confidentiality of data as it flows across a network.
Discuss the following question(s):
- In a university environment, what ethical concerns might exist for administrators when sniffing traffic?
- Should you encrypt all network traffic to protect against unauthorized network sniffing? Why or why not?
All discussion posts must be at least 100 words
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1. In a university environment, what ethical concerns might exist for administrators when
sniffing traffic?
Sniffing of data elicits many ethical concerns. The first ethical concern is on data privacy.
Users have a right to data security and privacy and sniffing on private conversations and personal
online activities can bring serious lawsuits for infringement on privacy, especially if the sniffing
is done in privacy and is not aligned to university internet guidelines and rules (Salmon,
Levesque, & McLafferty, 2017). The federal government laws are against network sniffing,
unless it is a corporate’s or organization’s policy.
Another ethical concern is that network sniffing interferes with data con...
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