In the National Interest – Two Recent Insider Threat Events in Australia

In the workplace setting an employer provides money and / or other benefits to a person in exchange for their labour, knowledge, and time.  The relationship is formally set out in a contract which details obligations that fall upon both the employer and employee, contractor or volunteer – a principle known as quid pro quo.  Examples of obligations include an employer providing a safe workplace, an employee working to a required standard of quality and time, and both parties behaving in the workplace in accordance with stated organisational values and the common law.When employees do not hold up their part of the quid pro quo bargain then trusted insiders can become insider threats and cause harm to the organisation. In this podcast Pentagram Advisory looks at two recent insider threats in Australia - the 'Bankstown nurses' and soldier Kira Korolev. The cases are very different but both are examples of intentional insiders who caused significant harm, noting the final consequences of their actions are not clear at the time this podcast waa created.