2026
Where Trust Meets Risk
Trust Without Understanding Creates Exposure.
Every organisation extends trust to its people, partners and technology, and that trust creates exposure long before it is ever tested. Global Insider Threat Awareness Month (GITAM) 2026 helps leaders examine that exposure, strengthen governance and build more resilient organisations.
Expert Interviews
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Insider Resilience
Decoding Trust: A 4-Part Video Series
Every organisation extends trust to its people, partners and technology, and that trust creates exposure long before it is ever tested. Global Insider Threat Awareness Month (GITAM) 2026 helps leaders examine that exposure, strengthen governance and build more resilient organisations.
What if the way we manage risk is actually preventing us from seeing it?
In this GITAM conversation, David Turner, CEO of RiskNZ, challenges conventional thinking about risk, trust and insider threats, including why organisations may be missing 20–30% of their real risks, how groupthink creates blind spots, and why leaders need to get much better at challenging what they think they already know.
Resilience Is a Leadership Decision
In this GITAM conversation, Rod Crowder, Founder and Managing Director of OpsCentre, challenges some of the assumptions organisations make about resilience. We explore growing dependencies, why prevention alone isn't enough, the relationship between resilience and insider risk, whether resilience can truly be measured, and why building a resilient organisation ultimately comes down to a leadership decision.
When Trust Becomes a Blind Spot
In this GITAM conversation, Seth de Reus from the New Zealand Institute of Intelligence Professionals explores the relationship between trust, intelligence and insider risk. We discuss how trusted relationships and long-held assumptions can create intelligence blind spots, why warning signs are often easier to recognise after an incident than before, and whether organisations are collecting more intelligence while understanding less. The conversation also challenges leaders to consider whether their intelligence functions are looking closely enough inside the organisation and whether they are prepared to act when intelligence challenges what they believe to be true.
When Insider Risk Becomes Strategic Risk
What changes when insider risk is viewed as a strategic organisational risk rather than simply a technology issue?
In this GITAM conversation, Tony Charge, President and Chairman of the Australian Risk Policy Institute, explores insider risk through a strategic risk and leadership lens. We discuss why insider-related exposure can struggle to gain executive attention, whether traditional risk frameworks are equipped to capture it, and the relationship between trust, culture, governance and organisational exposure.
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GITAM 2026 Awareness Posters
A collection of professionally designed posters to help organisations promote discussion, reinforce security awareness, and encourage conversations about trust, organisational exposure and insider risk.
Ways to Use the Posters
Use these posters to help promote awareness and encourage conversations about trust and organisational exposure across your organisation.
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Display them in workplaces to reinforce key awareness messages.
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Share them through internal email, newsletters and intranet communications.
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Use them to stimulate discussion during team meetings and leadership conversations.
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Incorporate them into security awareness, insider risk and onboarding programs.
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Include them as discussion prompts during workshops, training sessions and tabletop exercises.
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Introduce one poster each week to support an ongoing awareness campaign.
Choose the Poster Most Relevant for
Your Organisation's Function
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Executive Leadership / Board: #1, #8, #10
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Risk & Governance: #4, #9, #10
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Cybersecurity / IT: $5, #7, #9
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Human Resource: #2, #6, #7
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Managers: #3, #6, #8
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All Employees: #2, #3, #5
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Global Trust Survey 2026
Rate yourself on the following statements using this scale:
1 = Strongly Disagree
2 = Disagree
3 = Neutral
4 = Agree
5 = Strongly Agree
Executive Conversations Every Leader Should Have
Every organisation depends on trust, yet few leadership teams take the time to examine how trust influences organisational exposure, governance and resilience.
These four Executive Conversations are designed to challenge conventional thinking, encourage strategic discussion, and help leaders better understand where trust creates both opportunity and organisational exposure.
Each conversation concludes with practical questions to stimulate executive reflection and strengthen organisational decision-making.
