First and foremost, cyber technology is ever changing. It consistently changing offers more opportunities for job and ideas to be presented. Different scopes, different requirements, several positions can be created. Workplace deviance is defined as “deliberate, malicious attempts to sabotage an organization by causing problems within.” Deviance can occur from a frustrated worked whose been laid off and an IT department did not remove their credentials from their office or workstation. This then allows the ex-worker to remain authorized and have access – giving them the ability to hack or harm the company any way they decide to. Another example so when setting up profiles by an IT member, such IT worker can accidently assign too many access points to a specific person and that person would then have access to various accounts and files that they should not have. It is very possible that this data could contain sensitive data that should not be given out, especially for the public eye. For instance, it would be like working at a top-secret location, perhaps the White House, and something is TOP-SECRET and it gets into the wrong hands of someone. There would then be an issue of a national emergency. It could mean that there were plans that were supposed to be discreate. The moment that something gets out to the public, it essentially spreads like wildfire. With the technology that we have today, even if you “get rid of it” on the original server or location that it was, there is a pretty-solid chance that the information is now in multiple locations because someone copied it. There are always records. That is why it is crucial for there to be multiple steps of precaution in place. All it takes is an upset coworker, someone who thinks that they have been done wrong so they want payback, or just an accidental slip up.
Cyber technology has offered a lot of different scopes for workplace deviance. People could abuse their power and authorization for specific accounts or information. You have people who could work in hospitals and maintain private records – they could very well go in an get information from someone to use to their benefit and steal information, or find out where they live.