Keep Your Business Safe with Human Risk Management

Protect your people, assets, and reputation with expert-driven human risk management solutions.

Contents

Discover Comprehensive Human Risk Management (HRM) with Nisos
What is Human Risk Management?
Why Human Risk Management?
Why Choose Nisos?
Nisos’ Human Risk Management Process
Real-World Applications of Human Risk Management
Nisos Human Risk Management Capabilities
Explore Our Human Risk Insights
FAQ

What Is Human Risk Management?

Digital risks are inherently human risks, and Nisos is here to protect your company from it all.

To define human risk management, we first have to define what human risk is. Deloitte states that “…all risks have a significant human element. Some have an outsized effect on humans. Others are affected and driven to some degree by humans. As such, we refer to these as human risks because they affect humans’ professional and personal lives in palpable ways, in addition to the impact they have on your organization’s short-term performance, long-term viability, and reputation and brand.”

Human risk management is an approach to reducing risks posed by people inside and outside of your organization. By focusing on human factors in risk management, your company can manage risks caused by fraudulent employees, candidates, insider actors, and external third-parties. This approach bridges the gap between digital and human risk, allowing you to effectively mitigate threats to people, assets, operations, and your reputation.

Different Types of Human Risk

Employment Fraud

This can pose significant risks to your organization, from compromised security to reputational harm. These risks arise when individuals use false credentials, provide fake employment histories, use hidden affiliations to gain employment, or engage in polywork.

Insider Threats

Risks from employees or contractors, who misuse their access to sensitive information, can lead to data leaks, intellectual property theft, or reputational damage. Insider threats stem from individuals who already have legitimate access to your resources making detection challenging.

Third-Party and Vendor Risks

External partners or associates with access to your organization or data can pose risks if they have weak security practices or hidden affiliations, making thorough third-party vetting essential. Ongoing monitoring of these relationships is equally important to detect emerging risks.

Executive Protection

High-profile executives and public figures often face unique risks that directly threaten their personal safety, digital privacy, and reputations, and that of their family and employer. These risks to executives include personal information leaks, doxxing, cyber harassment, and even physical threats.

Why Human Risk Management?

The security and business risks that your company faces are greater now than ever before—and at their core, those threats are all human risks.

Human risk management solutions enable you to address human risk challenges like these—issues that pose threats to employees, assets, operations, and reputations. From employment fraud and insider threats to third-party risks and personal threats, effective human risk management offers your organization a robust defense against evolving threats.

Minimize Risk of Employment Fraud

Employment fraud occurs when individuals use false credentials, fabricated work histories, or false identities to secure roles within your company. This can expose your organization to breaches, intellectual property (IP) theft, and financial losses if fraudulent hires gain access to sensitive data. Human risk management solutions help verify identities, scrutinize candidate backgrounds, and monitor employees for potential risk factors. By screening for signs of fraud, you can reduce the likelihood of hiring individuals who might compromise security or act against company interests.

Protect Against Insider Threats

Insider threats, which originate from employees, contractors, or partners, are a major source of organizational risk. Educause states that “insider threats remain a significant concern” for companies today, “encompassing both malicious intent and negligent actions.” To curb these threats, human risk management focuses on monitoring employee, contractor, and partner behavior for unusual activity patterns, unauthorized data access, and other indicators of risk. Implementing these solutions helps detect, prevent, and respond to insider threats in your company, safeguarding valuable assets and maintaining organizational trust.

Proactively Manage
Third-Party Risks

Third-party partnerships are essential to many organizations but introduce potential vulnerabilities. Partners, vendors, or investors with access to your company’s data or systems could expose you to risk through insecure practices or affiliations with malicious actors. Human risk management solutions incorporate thorough vetting and ongoing monitoring of third-party entities, assessing their security practices, affiliations, and risk profiles. This enables your organization to build safer partnerships and reduce exposure to external threats.

Reduce Executive Protection Risks

Executives and high-profile stakeholders are frequent targets of digital and physical threats. Adversaries often seek to exploit personal data. Digital exposure includes data leaks, social media information, and other digital footprints that can be used for impersonation or harassment. Effective human risk management solutions monitor the internet, including deep and dark web sources, for emerging threats and exposed information linked to your key personnel. By identifying threats early and proactively managing digital exposure, your organization can reduce the risk of reputational harm and help ensure your leaders’ safety.

Why Choose Nisos?

Expert-Driven Human Risk Solutions

At Nisos, we go beyond conventional security measures with a targeted approach to human risk management. Our team of seasoned analysts brings decades of intelligence experience to deliver a tailored strategy that identifies, investigates, and mitigates the specific, digital, physical, and cybersecurity human risks faced by your organization.

We tackle a wide range of threats, from insider risks like data theft and sabotage to third-party vulnerabilities that can expose your organization to potential breaches. Nisos combines open-source intelligence with sophisticated investigative techniques, providing actionable intelligence that empowers your teams to address threats before they escalate.

Our human risk management solutions not only uncover the “who” behind threats but also reveal the how and why—enabling you to make informed, data-driven security and business decisions. By partnering with Nisos, you gain a proactive ally who integrates with your team, enhancing your risk posture and helping to secure the long-term safety of your assets, people, and brand reputation.

With Nisos, you can confidently navigate the complex landscape of human risk, knowing you have a trusted partner dedicated to safeguarding your organization.

Reduce Your Human Risk through Managed Intelligence

Nisos leverages a rigorous, analyst-led approach, combining advanced technology with deep expertise to tackle human risk challenges head-on. Our streamlined yet powerful process is designed to help you identify, understand, and mitigate complex human risks, reducing vulnerabilities and strengthening your overall security posture.

Identify

Our process begins with a thorough assessment to uncover and measure the human risk factors unique to your organization. We identify digital exposure points and potential vulnerabilities across teams, third-party connections, and executive profiles. By accurately sizing these risks, Nisos enables you to understand if human risk challenges are present, the extent of exposure, and the possible downstream impacts, so your team is prepared to act decisively.

Investigate

Once risks are identified, our team conducts in-depth investigations to unravel the full scope of each threat. We go beyond surface-level data, mapping out the “who, what, when, where, how, and why” of internal and external threats facing your organization. With Nisos’ finished intelligence, your team gains insights into the motivations, tactics, and affiliations of potential adversaries, empowering you to neutralize threats swiftly and bolster defenses through targeted actions.

Prevent

Our proactive prevention strategies help you monitor and respond to emerging risks, reducing your human risk profile over the long term. Nisos’ team continually tracks digital, physical, and reputational threats, delivering real-time alerts if sensitive data has been leaked or if unusual activities surface. By implementing best practices and reinforcing your monitoring processes, we help you stay ahead of future threats to your people, data, and brand reputation.

Real-World Applications of Human Risk Management

Nisos’ human risk management solutions are specifically designed to address the unique enterprise security challenges of vulnerable industries. By providing tailored risk management strategies, Nisos helps organizations protect critical data, uphold compliance standards, and secure their reputations. Here’s how human risk management plays a vital role across key sectors:

Financial Sector

Nisos’ human risk management solutions equip your financial institution to protect its leadership, The financial industry faces constant pressure to safeguard sensitive data and maintain trust. Executives in this sector are high-value targets for cyber harassment, identity theft, and reputational attacks. Additionally, financial institutions depend heavily on third-party vendors and partners, and weak security or undisclosed affiliations can lead to regulatory fines, reputational damage, or data breaches. Employees also hold access to sensitive information, making it essential to prevent employment fraud during hiring and implement measures to detect and address insider threats. thoroughly vet third-party relationships, and mitigate internal risks before they escalate.

Technology

Tech companies, known for their intellectual property and high-value data, are frequent targets of employment fraud and insider threats. Fraudulent applicants or polyworking employees can misuse access to steal trade secrets or expose sensitive information. At the same time, executives in the tech sector are often subject to targeted harassment, doxxing, and online smear campaigns. Additionally, third-party threats, specifically the human elements of supply-chain and M&A risks, such as undisclosed affiliations, can expose companies to reputational harm and data breaches. Nisos provides employment fraud solutions to vet your candidates and safeguard workforce integrity, as well as executive protection services to ensure that your company’s key leaders are able to focus on driving innovation without distractions or risks to their personal safety.

Legal and Corporate Governance

Legal professionals play a vital role in addressing human risk, both as trusted advisors to enterprises and as key stakeholders within your organization. Within enterprises, legal departments collaborate with Nisos to manage human risks like insider threats and employment fraud, ensure regulatory compliance, and mitigate third-party risks. Outside counsel firms rely on Nisos for expert support, leveraging our strategic relationships with partners and practice areas at top legal firms to deliver actionable intelligence and tailored solutions for clients with harassment and threats, in addition to the human risks internal counsels help manage.

Energy Sector

The energy sector faces unique challenges, including cyber espionage, insider threats, and regulatory compliance pressures. Human risk management is crucial to safeguarding critical infrastructure, protecting assets, and ensuring the safety of employees within your energy company. Nisos solutions can protect your company by detecting and mitigating human risk challenges associated with cyber and physical threats, such as sabotage, unauthorized data access, and insider threats. By managing these risks, you can successfully prevent costly disruptions, protect sensitive information, and comply with industry regulations to maintain operational resilience within your organization.

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Nisos Human Risk Management Solutions

Nisos offers comprehensive human risk management solutions designed to protect your organization from the full spectrum of human-related security threats. By leveraging expert intelligence and advanced technology, Nisos can help you mitigate risks such as employment fraud, insider threats, data leaks, and threats to your people, allowing you to operate securely and confidently.

Executive Shield

Your high-profile executives, leaders, and their families are prime targets for both digital and physical threats. Nisos’ Executive Shield offers a multilayered approach to protect them, combining in-depth assessments, PII (Personally Identifiable Information) removal, and monitoring. This solution proactively identifies and addresses threats to executives’ personal data and online presence, helping to safeguard not only their well-being but also their families’ and your organization’s reputation and operational continuity.

Insider Threat Intelligence Solutions

Insider threats pose significant risks to your organization’s intellectual property, data integrity, and overall security. Nisos’ Insider Threat Intelligence Solutions enable your organization to identify, investigate, and prevent internal threats before they can cause harm. Through digital analysis and investigative expertise, we empower your company to detect and mitigate insider risks, ensuring operational resilience and protecting valuable assets.

Employment Shield

Employment fraud can lead to security breaches, reputational damage, and operational disruption if unchecked. Nisos’ Employment Shield provides advanced tools for detecting fraudulent applications, screening for potential risks, and verifying employee integrity. By conducting thorough pre-employment vetting and ongoing risk assessments, our solution helps your organization maintain a trustworthy workforce and prevent risks associated with false identities, hidden affiliations, and nefarious backgrounds.

Third-Party Intelligence Solutions

Third-party partnerships are essential for business growth but can also expose your organization to hidden risks. Third-Party Intelligence from Nisos enables companies to thoroughly evaluate the security practices, affiliations, and risk profiles of partners, vendors, and investors. This solution helps organizations identify potential threats from external entities and ensures that their partnerships do not introduce vulnerabilities, protecting operations and maintaining a secure supply chain.

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Explore Our Human Risk Insights

Stay informed with expert insights on managing human risk across industries. Access Nisos’ latest resources, from case studies to thought leadership on emerging threats.

Brief

Human Risk Overview

Protect what matters most to your company, ensuring a secure environment where your business can thrive.

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Case Studies

Mitigate Human Risk with Intelligence Driven Solutions

Stay ahead of threats to protect your people, assets, and reputation with Nisos’ expert insights.

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Press Coverage

Newsweek

Chinese Intellectual Property Theft a ‘Significant Risk’— Hear from a Nisos Security Expert

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FAQ: Common Questions about Nisos’ Human Risk Management Solutions

How does human risk management relate to enterprise cybersecurity teams?

Human risk management focuses on identifying, investigating, and mitigating risks posed by people inside and outside of your organization, such as external threat actors, employees, contractors, and third-party partners. It addresses issues like insider threats, fraud, and third-party risks, protecting you from human-driven security threats.

How does human risk management protect against employment fraud?

Nisos conducts thorough background checks to detect falsified identities, criminal records, or suspicious affiliations among your company’s potential hires. This screening prevents fraudulent hires from accessing sensitive information and helps protect your organization from data leaks, financial losses, and reputational damage.

Why is executive protection important in human risk management?

Executive protection minimizes your high-profile leaders’ exposure to digital and physical threats, such as cyberattacks, doxxing, and harassment. By monitoring digital footprints, removing PII, and conducting threat assessments, human risk management ensures your executives’ safety and preserves organizational reputation.

How does Nisos help manage third-party risks?

Nisos’ human risk management solutions proactively assess third-party risks by evaluating your company’s vendors, partners, and clients for hidden threats or affiliations. With background checks, monitoring, and real-time insights, Nisos enables your organization to make informed decisions about partnerships, minimizing risks to people, assets, and operations.

How does human risk management address insider threats?

Human risk management solutions identify, monitor, and mitigate risks posed by employees, contractors, or others with internal access to your company’s sensitive information. Nisos helps you detect suspicious behavior through advanced monitoring and investigative tools. By addressing insider risks proactively, Nisos safeguards critical assets and minimizes potential harm to your operations and reputation.

Research Investigation

Probable DPRK Online Personas Used To Fraudulently Obtain Remote Employment at U.S. Companies

Nisos investigators identified a number of online personas probably used by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

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Press Coverage

Tech Firm Suspects Job Applicants Are North Korean Scammers

Content-moderation firm Cinder says it has received ‘dozens of suspected North Korean applicants’ for open jobs at the company, which is a fully remote organization.

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Research Investigation

Enhancing Executive Protection with PII Removal and Monitoring

Nisos’ Executive Shield proactively protects individuals by removing sensitive data, monitoring threats, and safeguarding families, assets, and reputations.

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Trusted by Leading Organizations

Hear from Businesses Like Yours

“We trust and look to Nisos when support is needed to address complex security challenges. Throughout the course of our relationship, their ability to conduct tailored evidence collection and analysis to aid in our security investigations has enabled us to mitigate significant risks across cybersecurity, disinformation, fraud, and physical security.”

Andrew Stanley, CISO – Mars INC

Protecting CEO from Targeted Harassment

Proactive PII removal and security recommendations mitigated imminent threats to the CEO, ensuring ongoing protection with continuous threat monitoring.

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Rooting Out Insiders Selling Access

Nisos identified threat actors targeting a client, preventing sensitive data compromise and improving their security posture.