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Motive

Boundary Testing

Coercion

  • Emotional Vulnerability
  • Long-Term Relationship Building
  • Non-Violent Threats and Intimidation
  • Psychological Manipulation
  • Romantic Seduction
  • Sexual Extortion
  • Social Engineering (Inbound)
  • Threats of Violence or Physical Harm

Conflicts of Interest

  • Conflicting Financial Interest
  • Conflicting Personal Relationship
  • External Business Interest

Curiosity

Entitlement

Espionage

  • Nation-State Alignment

Fear of Reprisals

Hubris

Human Error

Ideology

Lack of Awareness

Leaver

  • Contract Expiry
  • Resignation
  • Retirement or Departure from Workforce
  • Termination for Cause
  • Workforce Reduction

Misapprehension or Delusion

Personal Gain

  • Career or Business Advantage
  • Corporate Espionage
  • Extortion
  • Financial Desperation
  • Financial Self-Interest
  • Speculative Corporate Espionage

Political or Philosophical Beliefs

Recklessness

  • Conformity
  • Opportunism

Recognition

Resentment

Revenge

Rogue Nationalism

Self Sabotage

Third Party Collusion Motivated by Personal Gain

  • Human Insider Threat Matrix™
  • -AR1
  • -MT018
  • ID: MT018
  • Created: 29th October 2024
  • Updated: 25th April 2025
  • Contributor: Matt Barr

Curiosity

A subject, motivated solely by personal curiosity, may take actions that unintentionally cause or risk harm to an organization. For example, they might install unauthorized software to experiment with its features or explore a network-attached storage (NAS) device without proper authorization.

Preventions (5)

Detections (3)

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