Opportunities for Workplace Deviance
We are asked how cyber technology created opportunities for workplace deviance. To start off, the first way that cyber technology has created opportunities for workplace deviance is through anonymity. This is important because people are willing to take part in more malicious activities if no one is able to see what they are doing online. The next way that cyber technology created opportunities for workplace deviance is through the misuse of company resources, meaning that an employee might use any technology given to them by a company for their own personal use, which means that there is a very high risk that that device will end up being compromised, resulting in the leak of any company data that might have been stored on that computer. Going further into the last point, if the device that the employee uses ever gets compromised, this could be a very easy way for attacks to escalate their privileges, and in another way, an employee might be temped to use or escalate their privileges to do more things on a company’s device or their network, which could be very dangerous. Other ways that cyber technology created opportunities for workplace deviance are through remote work tools, which an employee might use to slack off during working hours due to the fact that they aren’t really being watched since they are at home, or remote work tools might be used to connect infected systems onto the network, which then can compromise and leak important company data. These are the ways that cyber technology created opportunities for workplace deviance.