Because for many companies, continuous operation and maintenance of custom software are crucial, they usually want to ensure that this continues even if the software licenser cannot operate in the future, for example, due to bankruptcy. The easiest way to overcome this for the licensee is to get a copy of the updated source code. Software developers are understandably reluctant to give a copy of their proprietary source code to the customer. The most significant asset of software developers is usually their source code, which can contain valuable trade secrets. One of the ways a software developer can deal with a client that requires access to the source code is to agree to store the source code using a triple escrow agreement. Under the escrow source code agreement, the developer provides a copy of the source code and documentation to a neutral party for safekeeping. The third party will hand over the source code to the buyer only after certain conditions defined by the contract have been met, such as the bankruptcy of software developers. That keeps the developer's source code confidential while, in theory, giving the user access to it if necessary. In this paper, we present the term software escrow contract.

Personal health information is regarded by many as being among the most confidential of all types of personal information. Due to violation of the right to privacy the European Court of Human Rights issued large number verdicts against EU countries, for failure to protect citizens' medical records and confidential data that they contain. Many data protection laws and the EU Data Protection Directive require that the data controller must implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data. Personal health information is considered a special category of personal data, for which an extra level of protection is required under data protection rules. Taking into account increasing use of automatic processing of medical data by information systems, this paper presents issue of personal health information protection and the situation in this matter in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Modern societies are highly dependent on information technology (IT) and therefore on IT professionals. The fact is that a large number of practitioners in the IT field have not passed a formal engineering education, and many have other (or no) college degrees. Unfortunately, even a large number of those who completed the engineering studies are not familiar with the issue of professionalism and ethics. IT professionals produce many business systems in today's digital economy, but also they produce, implement and maintain some critical systems – a system whose failure to operate correctly could result in physical injury or loss of life, or catastrophic economic damage. The public has entrusted in these IT professionals a level of responsibility because systems they design, implement and maintain affect the public directly and indirectly. Therefore, IT professionals must exercise the utmost conscientiousness in their designs, implementations and maintenance of IT systems. As such, IT professionals should have an understanding of the responsibilities associated with IT professionals practice.