Introduction

Over the past 13 years back, we have enter the first year of the 2000s decade. It also marks the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century. There are many transitions and changes that happen in this century. The globalization phase lies in this modern era. According to Thomas L. Friedman, globalization can be divided into 3 phases which are globalization I (1492-1800), globalization II (1800-2000) and globalization III (2000present). In brief, we are now in the globalization III. The most significant changes that occurred here is the ITs sector. IT stands for Information Technology. Information technology is a new branch in the world today and it can be defined as the used of applications in a computers, machines, gadgets, telephones and satellites to store data, retrieve back the stored data, to transmit data from one end device to another end device or between intermediary device and also to manipulate the data receive. In order to make sure that the IT branch is working and run smoothly we need to have a person who is good at handling it. We need the IT professionals here. IT professional is a person who is good at making the peoples business becomes much better, easier and up to date. They worked in many different kinds of sectors such as Database Administration, Programming, Software Engineering, Systems and Networking, Web Development, E-Business, and E-Commerce. IT professionals are responsible to do four different basic things in order to develop the technologies which are creating, develop, operate and maintain. Knowledge, training and experience have got to be on the IT professional lists. Knowledge can be gain through the education that we get when we were in high school, colleges, higher institutions, and also from the E-learning through the internet every day. How about training and experience? When we go for something and achieve excellent results, by the end of the day we will get a reward. Same goes for training. When we go for training, we will be certified. It means we were certified by a certain information technology professional certifications for products that we are into. It is way different than the degree certification which takes us years to finish. It takes only a short period of time to finish like maybe about a month. It is being awarded to those who have achieved their required qualifications in their sector. Lastly, experience can be divided into two which are practical experience and working experience. Our first or starting experience is going to be the time when we were doing our Industrial Training and the next one is when we start working after finishing study and graduate from the institutions. Nevertheless, do you really think that with all the knowledge, training, and working experience that we have can really determine that we were born as a real IT professional? The answer will be no if we do not have the awareness towards the ethics. Ethics is an attitude and a moral value. It comes out with a culture. What are your attitude and your response towards ethics in your professionalism? Let us think about what and how importance of ethics to the IT professionals.

The Importance of Ethics among the IT Professionals

The Associations of Computing Machinery (ACM) states that The future of computing profession depends on both technical and ethical excellence. It said crystal clear that ethical excellence is affecting the future. In order to prevent the increase incident of computer misused, ethical in information technology needs to be practiced. An analysis will help because from the analysis they will know what they supposed to do to develop ethical practice issues among IT Professional and to minimize computer misused. The problem is why nourishing a good IT business ethics is important? Ethics is important among professional IT because ethics build a good relationship with colleagues that might help you with your career in the future. Plus, the work can be done smoothly without any misunderstanding or problems. Keep his/her employers informed and up to date on information processing methods and procedures, which is one way the IT professional should do. This not only makes the IT process more transparent, but also keeps employers current on improvements in IT technology beneficial to the company. The important of ethics among professional focus on computer professional feel responsible for ensuring that computer technology is not used in ways that harm people, the environment, or society. The major risk to the companys computer security is when someone breaks into the computer system without permission. This harmful manner is famously known as hacking. Mainstream usage of "hacker" refers to computer criminals. A hacker would intentionally steal data or commit vandalism, or just merely explore the system to see how it works and what files it contains. Modifying data and programs without proper authority can violate against the law and agreements. This harmful manner would then bring various kind of problem like damaged or lost data or program to the company in the nearby future. The company would then have to face time-consuming and costly investigation in order to fix the problem. IT professionals might conduct a lot of test, experiments and presentations. In order to do this entire works, the IT professional must know the legality and copyright of the laws. They must obey all the laws that have been set by government. Know and obey relevant laws and institutional and governmental policies. The IT professional is expected to bear patiently all copyright laws and agreements. This would include laws against the unauthorized use, or pirating, of software. Moreover, IT workers may never share, record, copy or alter information unless specifically required to do so. Somehow, they need to ask for permission or make citation before use the authors work. When using animals in research, show proper respect and care for the animals. Conduct unnecessary or poorly designed animal experiments is absolutely wrong. Eventually, respect human dignity, privacy, and autonomy; take special precautions with vulnerable populations; and strive to distribute the benefits and burdens of research fairly when conducting research on human subjects. IT workers should minimize harms and risks and maximize benefits as mention above.

Another important thing of ethics among the professional is about access data. According to Gordana (2003), computer professional only access data required to perform their job. They only access data that they want to complete their task beside to access another data that not required completing their own task. Other than that, they use the right time to complete their task. The task must be done properly considering all factors such as the quality of the data that they access. Improper ethics education can cause professionals to do the task without concentrate, not concern at all whether the task done is complete or not. Moreover, the procedure of IT process will keep in confidential. This is because IT professional only participate in development task, the objective and context of which have been made explicitly (Dahlbom and Mathiassen, 1999). This is very important for big organization in other to survive in the industry. There have their own strategy or benchmark that is key success to their business. Ultimately, a code of ethics will promote the great values of the IT profession over the globe. Each IT professionals owes a duty to the company to act with integrity. Integrity requires, among other things, being honest and ethical. IT professionals will be encouraged to be honest, loyal, and responsible and behave accordingly. The honesty, loyalty and responsibility that they have shown in their services serve as a guideline of professionalism. Therefore, this great value will surely maintain and acquire professional competence. They shall act in a manner that is consistent and in the best interests of their client and employer consistent with the public interest. This is crucial as it shows respect and contribution to the development of the professional competence of the users. Act with integrity, besides being honest and ethical while still maintaining the confidentiality of information where required or consistent with the company's policies. Besides that, it also serves as a guideline for professionalism and therefore, enhanced the skill and quality of working life. This will ultimately gain the good remark upon the community.

Conclusion
From our research, we found that the importance of ethics among IT professionals is vital because a good ethics shown by IT professionals will reflect great values towards IT profession. All the moral values and ethics that have been mention before are all important to apply in the IT fields because all the company nowadays depends on IT for their business and industries. Moreover, it will helps to accomplish a pleasant surroundings within an organization with a good individual manner and ethics. With ethics, most of IT professionals might not be penalized due to unethical action. Example of unethical action can be as plagiarism, disturbing people privacy, unauthorized access, hacking, lack in honesty and others. IT professional also play major roles to maintain their ethics in order to improve their performance and simultaneously improving the company too. Furthermore, according to SANS San Antonio (2004), the IT professionals must strive for technical excellence in the IT profession by maintaining and enhancing their own knowledge and skills. This code of ethics is build to ensure that the IT professionals will strive for the best performance with high credibility, responsibility, and maturity to handle the tasks in Information Technologys.

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