Four ethical issues that arise when storing electronic information about individuals are confidentiality, integrity, incident response, and storing their data without consent. Sensitive information about individuals would have to stay confidential to ensure that their information would not end up in the wrong hands to be exploited. Some of their information could contain their name, social security number, address, telephone number, email address, and date of birth, all of which are their pii, personal identifiable information. Other sensitive information of the customer that would need to remain confidential would be their credit card information. If their information is not confidential, it could cause identity theft and credit card fraud. It also leads to integrity to ensure that none of the individuals’ information is tampered with and remains accurate to the stored information. That could cause problems for individuals when they are trying to access an account or service only to find out their information was changed. Another issue is incident response in the methods used by the company to inform individuals of a data breach and the potential risk of their information being leaked. By their information being revealed, it would require the individuals to change their information for the accounts associated with that company or organization. This could cause people to distrust the company or organization and damage its reputation. The last issue is when companies store individuals’ information without their consent, so individuals would have their data held by companies without them knowing. They might not want their data stored because they might want it to remain private so that no one would know. Some companies or organizations might still store their information even if they refuse to share it. By companies storing that information anyway is a significant invasion of privacy.

Two countries that vary in the number of cybersecurity risks they face are the United States and Iran. By comparing the United States with Iran, we see that Iran has a higher number of mobile devices inflicted with malware than the U.S. While the U.S. has fewer mobile devices affected by malware, there are more computers affected by malware in the U.S. than in Iran. The U.S. suffers more from telnet attacks than Iran, while Iran suffers more attacks by crypto miners than the United States. Overall, the United States is more prepared for future cyber-attacks than Iran.