Insider Risk Perspective

Your acceptable use policy exists. Your data handling policy is documented. Your incident response plan is approved and filed. Yet insider incidents still occur in organisations that have all of them. The reason is straightforward: Policies create expectations. They do not create detection, escalation, or the judgement to act when something feels wrong but is not yet undeniable.

To have a Policy or not have a Policy isn't the question...The question is whether your organisation can actually act on it. All true. But the reality is that TRUST doesn’t set boundaries, log actions, or stop a bad click at 5 p.m. Trust isn’t a control. That imbalance is becoming NEGLIGENT.

To have a Policy or not have a Policy isn't the question...The question is whether your organisation can actually act on it. All true. But the reality is that TRUST doesn’t set boundaries, log actions, or stop a bad click at 5 p.m. Trust isn’t a control. That imbalance is becoming NEGLIGENT.

We celebrate trust. We hire for it, reward it, and tell ourselves it’s what makes great teams work. All true. But the reality is that TRUST doesn’t set boundaries, log actions, or stop a bad click at 5 p.m. Trust isn’t a control. That imbalance is becoming NEGLIGENT.

This article challenges the belief that trust alone can protect an organisation. While trust is essential for culture, it doesn’t enforce boundaries, detect risk, or prevent misuse of access. This article highlights why trust must be continuously tested, supported by controls, and treated as a dynamic process, not a one-time assumption. That imbalance is becoming NEGLIGENT.

This article exposes a simple imbalance: Organisations invest heavily in stopping outsiders, but far less in understanding the risks already inside. Yet most costly incidents begin with trusted access, human behaviour, and missed internal signals. The real issue isn’t the lack of tools. It’s where attention and funding are placed. That imbalance is becoming NEGLIGENT.

Ask any executive who owns insider risk, and you will often see a pause. Not because people don’t care, but because it doesn’t sit neatly within one function.