Insider Threat Matrix™Insider Threat Matrix™
  • ID: IF036
  • Created: 02nd May 2026
  • Updated: 02nd May 2026
  • Contributor: The ITM Team

Misuse of Corporate Communication Channels

A subject uses organization-managed communication channels to send, distribute, or amplify messages that violate acceptable use expectations, undermine workplace safety, damage operational trust, or create legal, reputational, or personnel risk. This may occur through email, enterprise messaging platforms, collaboration tools, internal forums, ticketing systems, shared document comments, or other corporate communication environments.

Subsections (4)

ID Name Description
IF036.004Extremist Communication Content

A subject distributes extremist, radicalizing, terrorist-supportive, or ideologically violent material through organization-managed communication channels. This may include propaganda, manifestos, violent ideological imagery, symbols associated with extremist organizations, recruitment material, or communications endorsing politically, religiously, racially, or ideologically motivated violence.

IF036.001Hostile, Abusive, or Threatening Communications

A subject uses organization-managed communication channels to send hostile, abusive, coercive, intimidating, or threatening messages to another individual or group. This may include direct insults, aggressive language, repeated disparagement, intimidation, implied retaliation, coercive demands, or threats of professional, personal, or physical harm.

IF036.002Inappropriate Sexual or Explicit Communications

A subject uses corporate communication channels to send, request, display, or distribute sexually explicit, obscene, or otherwise inappropriate material unrelated to legitimate business activity. This may include explicit images, sexualized comments, unwanted personal advances, or inappropriate jokes distributed through work systems.

IF036.003Offensive Communication Content

A subject distributes offensive, graphic, obscene, degrading, or inflammatory material through organization-managed communication channels. This may include content that violates acceptable use expectations, disrupts workplace operations, damages team trust, or creates legal, reputational, or personnel risk.