Business travellers are increasingly targeted by hostile actors before they even board a plane. Through open-source intelligence, social media, conference attendee lists and corporate disclosures, organisations can become vulnerable long before a traditional cyber attack begins. In many cases, compromise starts with people rather than technology.

This webinar explores how Counter Compromise helps organisations recognise and reduce these human-led threats by combining travel risk management, protective security, cyber awareness and intelligence-led planning.

Organisations have invested heavily in cyber security, travel risk management and crisis response capability. Yet many publicly reported cases of corporate compromise demonstrate that exploitation often begins before a technical alert is triggered or a physical incident occurs. Hostile actors, both state and non-state, increasingly identify, profile and assess business travellers before international travel takes place. They use publicly available information to build detailed intelligence on individuals and organisations before engaging through conversation, social engineering, digital interaction or situational pressures designed to elicit sensitive information.

The webinar examines the human attack surface within international business travel, showing how behavioural manipulation, digital exploitation and technical intrusion combine to create compromise pathways that traditional destination-focused travel risk programmes can overlook. It provides practical guidance for corporate security leaders, travel risk professionals, HR, legal teams and risk owners seeking to strengthen prevention, detection and early intervention capabilities against targeted exploitation.

Dr Brian Moore QPM, Managing Director at GSA Global, said:

“Business travellers can become targets for intelligence gathering long before a technical compromise occurs. Effective travel risk management is about understanding the human dimension of risk as well as the destination. By recognising how hostile actors identify, assess and engage individuals, organisations can better protect their people, safeguard sensitive information and strengthen their overall resilience.”

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.

What You Will Learn

  • Why business travellers are increasingly targeted
  • How hostile actors identify and profile individuals
  • The role of social engineering and elicitation
  • The connection between cyber and human compromise
  • Practical counter compromise measures before, during and after travel
  • How Counter Compromise supports organisational resilience

Questions to Consider

  • Could someone profile your executives before they travel?
  • Do travellers understand how they are targeted?
  • Could your conference attendance expose sensitive information?
  • Are travel, cyber and security teams working together?
  • Would your organisation detect a compromise before data is lost?

Speakers:

Who Should Watch?

This webinar is ideal for:

  • Corporate Security Directors
  • Travel Risk Managers
  • Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs)
  • HR and People Risk teams
  • Legal and Compliance professionals
  • Executive Protection teams
  • Business travellers
  • Risk and Resilience leaders

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