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- The Menlo Report is a report published by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, Cyber Security Division that outlines an ethical framework for research involving Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). The 17-page report was published on August 3, 2012. The following year, the Department of Homeland Security published a 33-page companion report that includes case studies that illustrate how the principles can be applied. The Menlo Report adapted the original Belmont Report principles (Respect for Persons, Beneficence, and Justice) to the context of cybersecurity research & development, as well as adding a fourth principle, "Respect for Law and Public Interest." The Menlo Report was created under an informal, grassroots process that was catalyzed by the ethical issues raised in ICT Computer security research. Discussions at conferences and in public discourse exposed growing awareness of ethical debates in computer security research, including issues that existing oversight authorities (e.g., Institutional Review Boards) might have been unaware of or determined were beyond their purview. The Menlo Report is the core document stemming from the series of working group meetings that broached these issues in an attempt to pre-empt research harms and galvanize the community around common ethical principles and applications. This report proposes a framework for ethical guidelines for computer and information security research, based on the principles set forth in the 1979 Belmont Report, a seminal guide for ethical research in the biomedical and behavioural sciences. The Menlo Report describes how the three principles in the Belmont report can be applied in fields related to research about or involving information and communication technology. ICT research raises new challenges resulting from interactions between humans and communications technologies. In particular, today's ICT research contexts contend with ubiquitously connected network environments, overlaid with varied, often discordant legal regimes and social norms. The Menlo Report proposes the application of these principles to information systems security research although the researchers expect the proposed framework to be relevant to other disciplines, including those targeted by the Belmont report but now operating in more complex and interconnected contexts. The Menlo Report details four core ethical principles, three from the original Belmont Report.
* respect for persons
* beneficence
* justice It has an additional principle - respect for law and public interest. The report explains each of these in the context of ICT research. (en)
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