ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
A senior manager privately instructs you, the organization's newly certified SSCP, to access and read an employee's personal email folder on the corporate mail server to determine whether the employee is organizing a labor union. The request is not part of an official investigation, and no written authorization, court order, or legal hold exists. To comply with the (ISC)2 Code of Ethics canons that require acting honorably, honestly, justly, responsibly, and legally, what is the most appropriate first action?
Decline the request and immediately escalate it to the organization's legal or compliance department for proper authorization.
Comply but examine only a small sample of messages to limit the privacy breach.
Quietly perform the search after making a personal backup of the mailbox in case the contents are later needed as evidence.
Delete the manager's email to avoid creating a record and refuse to discuss the matter further.
The (ISC)2 Code of Ethics obligates members to act within the law and to be honest and just in all professional dealings. Accessing an employee's personal mailbox without proper legal authority would likely violate privacy laws, company policy, and ethical standards. Therefore, you must refuse to perform the unauthorized search and escalate the request to the appropriate authority-typically the legal or compliance office-so that any investigation can proceed through proper, documented, and lawful channels. Simply obeying the manager, secretly limiting the scope, or deleting evidence of the request would all violate ethical canons by facilitating potentially illegal activity or obstructing accountability.
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