After you have finished this chapter, you should be able to answer the following questions. 9.1 | Security Issues: Threats to Computers & Communications Systems What are some characteristics of the key security issues for information technology? | 9.2 | Security: Safeguarding Computers & Communications What are the characteristics of the four components of security? | 9.3 | Quality-of-Life Issues: The Environment, Mental Health, & the Workplace How does information technology create environmental, mental-health, and workplace problems? | 9.4 | Economic Issues: Employment & the Haves/Have-Nots How may technology affect the unemployment rate and the gap between the rich and the poor? | 9.5 | The Digital Environment: Is There a Grand Design? What are the Internet2, the 1996 Telecommunications Act, and ICANN? |
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