Journal Entry 6

Cyber technology has created workplace deviance when individuals join an organization just to hurt it. There are people out there who despise certain businesses because of products and services or some type of belief for example. Because they despise the business so much, they would resort to joining the business in order to destroy it from the inside. These types of attackers could manage their way around through social engineering which involves tricking other employees to reveal sensitive information or even provide authorization. Once an attacker successfully infiltrates, there a number of things they could do. They could steal financial information, destroy records, or sell information to other competing businesses for example. A business could even lose their reputation because their customers might think that the business is hiring just about anyone without doing a proper check if word gets at that one of the employees were doing all these things. This is why it is important to train employees. Employees train should include teaching employees be aware of deviance in the workplace. They should be trained to spot and avoid emails that are considered phishing. Once someone successfully infiltrates a business, they have the contact information on the employees they work with, which means they could send out anonymous phishing emails which would have links containing a virus that could infect a system. The infection could spread to the whole network in the business, and everything would fall into the hands of the attacker. When employees change their passwords, it is important that there are requirements that make the password complex. Once an employee creates a password it is important that if they do decide to write it down, they must put it somewhere safe and secure instead of leaving it out in the open for others to see.