How has cyber technology created opportunities for workplace deviance?

Workplace deviance happens when an employee who is unhappy at their workplace tries to find a way to harm the company. They hold a grudge either from bad treatment or a release notice from the company. Some of the behavior they portray can be minimal like being rude to colleagues, not following higher up orders, or not carrying out professional behavior while at work. On the contrary, other deviant behaviors displayed can be detrimental to the company’s safety and image. For instance, if an employee is unhappy with their higher ups or current co-workers, they can go on social media and expose the company to the internet, in turn leaving the lives of the co-workers in danger from public hate and the company’s image being stained with negativity. The introduction of cyber technology has served as a great avenue for workplace deviance to tamper in. One of the biggest threat to a company’s cybersecurity safety is the employee on the inside. They know the company well from working there and understand the vulnerabilities of the company. Because they understand the company so well, it can be easy for them to work with hackers to damage the company’s security. The hacker can steal important information, install ransomware, or sell customer information to the dark web. The company’s traitor would either get a percentage of the money received from the ransomware or have the thrill of seeing the company’s safety penetrated. Furthermore, the traitor can cooperate with the hacker to carry out the malicious attack on the company’s cybersecurity by implanting malware or a bug onto the computer system of the organization. They can also insert a USB into the system that has preloaded bugs on it that can attack the system once loaded onto the computer. This would mean the person would partake first hand in harming the company physically.