This set of principles has been designed to assist members in sound professional judgement while upholding ethical ideas and obligations. Our code of ethics was created by the predecessor to ITPA, The System Administrators Guild of Australia (SAGE-AU), and is globally recognised, having been adopted as the basis for similar codes of conduct by other like-minded organisations all over the world.
Our code of ethics commit our members to maintaining the confidentiality and integrity of the computer systems they manage, for the benefit of all of those involved with and affected by them. No single set of rules could apply to the enormous variety of situations and responsibilities that exist, but while IT Professionals must always be guided by their own professional judgment, we hope that consideration of this code will help when difficulties arise.
Members of ITPA are required to abide by our code of ethics at all times - failure to do so may result in exclusion from the orga