RaaS gangs now run formal insider recruitment programmes targeting IT admins, backup operators, and HR staff with offers of 15–25% of ransom payments. Traditional governance frameworks are unprepared.
This is the bit that fascinates me: role-based access controls assume the role-holder is trustworthy. That was always a polite fiction, but it worked when insider threats were crimes of opportunity.
Now we’re in a world where the attack surface includes your own org chart. The playbook hasn’t just become useless.
This is the bit that fascinates me: role-based access controls assume the role-holder is trustworthy. That was always a polite fiction, but it worked when insider threats were crimes of opportunity.
Now we’re in a world where the attack surface includes your own org chart. The playbook hasn’t just become useless.
It’s become the exploit.