Publication #6

Cyber technology has opened more opportunities for employees to do damage to their companies undetected by simply using their computer and access. Workplace deviance occurs in many ways, and everyone has their own objective. At the end all this affects the company and customers. This is the other side of cybercrime, and they called it “white/collar crime” because it is an employee either dissatisfied, angry or just malicious minded doing harm to the business and customers. For example, the health industry handles massive amounts of information because they deal with patients daily. A nurse or doctor that feels tired, betrayed, or gets fired has a potential to do damage to the hospital by storing personal information of patients in his/her personal computer and this implicates addresses, social securities, full names, occupations, and more. This doctor or nurse can use this information either to sell it or use it to commit fraud leaving a patient with credit cards open or easily accessed by hackers to crack their accounts. In the other hand, that same employee can on purpose disclosed security measures that the hospital uses to cyber criminals allowing a breach leaving the hospital vulnerable to hack and potentially losing money or trust in a city or customers. As technology evolves, the jobs positions and companies updating their systems do as well. It is harder to track who manages information and stored because multiple employees need to access the information to perform as required and it is not like in the past when everything was on paper or face to face thus Cyber technology has created multiple flanks for workplace deviance to occurs and the only way to mitigate it is by implementing better regulations in the workplace like if an employee is going to be fired, his/her account needs to be disable before that employee takes harmful actions or finally now allowing employees to work in their personal computers without proper measurements and for key employees that could be easily pointed out if a white collar crime happen. 

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