Journal #6

Deviance is defined as the fact or state of departing from usual or accepted standards. Cyber security has made workplace deviance much more doable since these actions can be done online or through web-based material. Over the past couple of years, many more businesses and companies are entering the online world. Banks, hospitals, and retailers hold almost all of their information online. This online information could hold customers’ identities and could also hold the company’s secretive trading information. If this information were to get out the company or business might have to shut down. An example of workplace deviance could include an induvial who was fired. This disgruntled, former employee may be very bad at his former establishment and want to get back at them. He could tell very private and secretive information from his former company to another one for monetary gain. However, workplace deviance could still occur with a current employee. Many would guess that a business’ biggest threat would come from outside sources, but the insiders may be the biggest threat instead. The employee, for whatever reason, be angry at the management. He could shut down a particular server or barrier leaving the company susceptible to cyber-attacks. Because of this, hackers could enter the system and still critical information from the company and possibly sell it for monetary reasons. Cyber technology has also made it a lot harder to find the individual who did the deviant acts. Since these acts are mostly done from someone’s home and on their computer, it would be much harder to find them. For example, if a bank is robbed security cameras are likely to see the person’s complexity and features. However, there are no security cameras to pick up a cyber-attack. Because of this, the cyber attack could go on for a very long time without being picked up.

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