Journal #6

Workplace deviance is the desire to cause harm to an organization, more specifically a workplace. When workplace deviance happens within a cyber security setting, it is harder to detect as it most likely would take place online. If an employee felt the desire to cause harm to a cyber security/technology business, a way to do this would be downloading sensitive information and selling it to other companies for financial gain. The cause for employees feeling the desire to cause harm to cyber security companies could be for many reasons. One of the main reasons would be if that employee were to be fired or if they were to get into some trouble at work. In some companies, the employees have a significant amount of access to sensitive information, meaning that if they were to become disgruntled enough, they are able to use that sensitive information to their advantage. Another example would be, if an employee were to interfere with the security systems of a company, it would then leave that company open to any cyber attacks. This would then leave the company at high risk of a cyber criminal hacking the company.  Cyber technology gives these employees the opportunity to engage in workplace deviance as it is much harder to catch a person doing harmful acts behind the computer screen than to catch them in person. With this in mind, it is important for companies to understand that their employees do have access to sensitive information. Some ways to prevent workplace deviance, would be to ensure that the employees they hire do not have a history of acting off of malicious intent. A way to do this would be to conduct background checks on their employees before hiring. Another way would be to limit the amount of access an employee has to the sensitive information of the company. However, with all this in mind, a company or business needs to understand that workplace deviance can happen anywhere and it can be harder to detect within cyber companies.

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