ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
As an SSCP, you review system logs and find a senior developer has copied proprietary source code to a personal cloud repository. Your company's code of ethics explicitly requires employees to report suspected policy violations through the confidential ethics hotline or compliance office. What action best meets these specific ethical requirements?
Do nothing now and allow the next scheduled audit to uncover the issue formally.
Notify your project team over group chat so they can monitor the developer's activities.
Privately request that the developer delete the copied code and take no further action if they comply.
Report the incident immediately through the company's ethics hotline or directly to the compliance office.
Organizational codes of ethics typically mandate that employees who become aware of misconduct or suspected violations must report them through established, authorized channels-such as an ethics hotline or the compliance office-so the organization can investigate and respond appropriately. Quietly asking the developer to fix the issue, alerting peers, or waiting for an audit all fail to satisfy the stated reporting obligation and may expose the organization and the employee to additional risk.
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