Digitalization and Business Ethics for a Cyber Peace

Abstract

Because of the increasing digitalization of the contemporary societies, it is the modes of production (computing organization of companies and industrial equipment), the defence of States (digitalization of the battle spaces and of the armaments), the conservation and the preservation of the public heritages (architecture and art), the personal existences (medical, bank data etc.), that are now totally dependent on computer systems. Consequently, the need for cybersecurity increases, as well for the organizations as for the people, what has direct consequences on the business ethics. Between advanced surveillance policy and right to the integrity and continuity of a digital heritage, the cyber defence become for States a national sovereignty challenge, for business an economic challenge, for people a protection and respect challenge for their identity, integrity and autonomy. If the “encryption” appears as a solution to protect the goods and people, to authenticate the just, in the sense of rightness, in a world which are going to be characterized by the mistrust and by the fear, it means that everything must be “coded” to be protected? What about natural laws of the learning and knowledge? The categories of the good, the right, the truth, the integer, which characterizes the ethics, have a possible autonomy? How to define a new business ethics which can accompany the cyber peace?