How has cyber technology created opportunities for workplace deviance?

Cyber technology has a big impact on creating new opportunities for workplace deviance. Property deviance can be defined as acts in which employees steal or damage tangible items owned by the organization, such as theft, pilferage, embezzlement, and sabotage. ICT workplace deviance may include sabotaging computer programs, stealing proprietary information, executing viruses and hacking into private computer space. Not surprisingly, organizations spend billions annually to offset cyber attacks. Cyber technology has made it easier for employees to defy rules and attack for their own benefit weather a good or bad cause it is still against the rules as they are causing harm to the company. It doesn’t matter what type of workplace it can happen anywhere, although certain fields are more susceptible to having a cyber crime take place. Some of the negative impacts experienced by organizations include: disciplinary actions, termination, or loss of employees, breaches of corporate confidentiality and reputation loss, or personal privacy, personal and organizational liability and the associated legal costs, as well as billions of dollars in lost productivity. With new technologies available everyday their are easier ways of breaching into a system and using malicious intent to harm a company. Weather it is for revenge or for another reason the employee has access to lots of information and key data necessary to gain access to this data. If a employee uses this to change the integrity of information or steals data this is a huge loss to that business or company. The technology available to employees such as computers, laptops, phones even and access to databases are a risk factor that employers have to think about when handling a business. Some may say they should not be used at all, but for employees that work from home the data they need is essential for their work, but is a big risk to have at another location.