Date: 15 April 2026
Time: 3PM BST
Organisations have invested heavily in cyber security, travel risk management, and crisis response capability. Yet many publicly reported cases of corporate compromise show that exploitation often begins before a technical alert is triggered and before a physical incident occurs. Compromise begins with people.
Hostile actors – both state and non-state – increasingly look to identify, profile, and assess business travellers in advance of international travel. Combined, open-source intelligence, social media aggregation, conference attendance information, and corporate disclosures enable detailed target mapping. Malign engagement can then follow through conversation, rapport building, digital interaction, or situational pressures during transit and overseas activity – all intended to elicit sensitive information or intelligence.
The session examines the human attack surface within international business travel and explores how compromise pathways blend behavioural manipulation, digital exploitation and technical intrusion. It will explain why traditional destination-focused travel risk programmes often overlook targeted exploitation risk. This expert-led webinar will provide practical counter compromise insights for corporate security leaders, travel risk professionals, risk owners, HR, and legal professionals seeking to strengthen prevention, detection, and early intervention capability.
Key Discussion Points:
Why compromise & exploitation happens and how traditional travel risk management programmes can miss the gap.
Understand the forms of attack, including how target profiles of business travellers are developed before travel even begins.
Understanding the blended human and cyber pathway.
How rapport building, identity harvesting, device targeting, and credential abuse combine to bypass otherwise strong security and cyber controls.
Strengthening organisations through proportionate counter compromise measures.
Expert views on practical measures that enhance prevention and early detection of compromise efforts without over engineering your security programme.
Speakers:
- Dan Morrison: Founder & President, Odin Enterprises, LLC
- Ellen Davies: Lead Open Source Investigator, GSA Global
- Howard Nichol: Director of Operations, GSA Global
- Mark Raeburn: Director of Cyber Security and Resilience, GSA Global
