Journal #3

Research in criminology, sociology, and management, has focused on deviant behaviors with technology, termed cyber deviance. This term refers to inappropriate or criminal behavior in a digital context. There is an alarming trend of individuals behaving inappropriately with information technology in both organizational and personal settings. For example, in a work context individuals are breaking repeatedly security protocols (Hovav et al. 2011) leading to the compromise of sensitive customer and important organizational data resources. I believe that the cyber world has opened up a number of oppertunities for workplace deviance just because it gives people access to how a certain company is protected and who it is protecting. Social factors have begun to be examined through the use of social learning theory and social cognitive theory to explain the ways in which attitudes and beliefs influence cyber deviance (Jacobs et al. 2012). Some people want a lot of things out of the information that they can get from the people they are stealing from. Personally, I believe that the main reasoning for people acting out is money because a lot of companies have a lot of important information that could be valuable and they are willing to buy that information for a large amount of money and of course people love fast money, fast easy money. Others may not agree or be in good standing with the company they are working with so they go out of their way to leave something open for access allowing individuals to come in and hack or attack them. It has also been something more popular because depending on how good someone is they could leave no trace behind and never get caught. People are much more liable to do things knowing that they can not get caught or they are just much more brave rather than if they were in person.

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