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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

Performance Pressure

Personal Gain

  • Career or Business Advantage
  • Corporate Espionage
  • Extortion
  • Financial Desperation
  • Financial Self-Interest
  • Speculative Corporate Espionage
  • Third-Party Collusion for Personal Gain

Recklessness

  • Conformity
  • Opportunism

Recognition

Resentment

Revenge

Rogue Nationalism

Self Sabotage

  • Human Insider Threat Matrix™
  • -AR1
  • -MT026
  • ID: MT026
  • Created: 07th November 2026
  • Updated: 07th November 2026
  • Contributor: The ITM Team

Performance Pressure

A subject engages in an infringement to meet imposed performance measures, sales requirements, or assessed output expectations. The investigative focus is the documented relationship between the requirement and the subject's decision to violate an organizational boundary.

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Detections (2)

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