Moving from Insider Threats to a Trusted Workforce No organization wants insiders stealing their assets, data, or knowledge—or worse, physically harming others. But ensuring security and safety is only the start. Today’s companies, governments, and militaries need to enable trust in order to excel. It’s like Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, if you remember your first…
Employee Vetting Process: How To More Effectively Verify Applicant Information When Hiring I’ve run into more than a few companies across industries who’ve chosen to forego background checks for employees, stating the expense just isn’t worth it. Generally, companies who simply take resumes at their word are smaller startup operations. But you remember one story…
Following several conversations with customers and partners and due to specific online reports, we have noticed a pattern that deserves attention. Understandably, some people are confused about the differences between the powerful voice technologies becoming prevalent in our professional and personal lives. Unfortunately, combined with privacy and legal concerns, this lack of understanding can feed…
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged both commercial and government organizations to grow their remote workforces. As organizations rush to find suitable online meeting tools, virtual private networking (VPN) technology, and sharpen remote workforce policies – investing in insider threat policies and tools should also be a priority. Without in-office interactions, gone are the days of…
Fraudulent practices during the pandemic & how can they be better detected Fraudulent practices have always been present in society. In the age of coronavirus, there are more temptations for fraudsters than ever. In its fraud and corruption guidelines, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development defines fraudulent practices as, “Any act or omission, including…
This fast-paced era in which we live, work and thrive is increasingly populated by many types of technologies, including ones that focus on human speech and voice information. In addition to the ease of accessibility, and the economical repositories for storing this data, robust artificial intelligence (AI) driven tools that detect, distill, and translate specific…
Updated: 03.27.2020 The FCPA Facilitation Payments Exception: What it Means When Dealing With Foreign Officials The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is pretty stringent when it comes to prosecuting companies for taking part in bribery. Employees or company agents caught bribing foreign officials can be fined, as can the company. On top of that, they’ll have to give…
Six Hiring Best Practices in 2020 It’s an irony of our times that as technology becomes more powerful and widespread, hiring the right people becomes ever more critical. How do you know they have the skills and experience stated on their resume? This irony doesn’t apply to just technical roles, either. Human abilities such as…
Clearspeed at the APPA Conference 2019 in San Francisco Please join the Clearspeed team at the The American Probation and Parole Association’s 2019 Annual Training Institute in San Francisco August 18 – 20 at booth #518. We look forward to presenting you with our voice risk screening technology that provides human risk assessments for…
The Growing Challenges of Human Risk Gartner Presention by Alex Martin & Chase Hughes NATIONAL HARBOR, MD June 18, 2019 – Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2019 — Chase Hughes, President at Ellipsis Behavior Laboratories and Alex Martin, CEO at Clearspeed, an innovative developer and provider of technology-based human risk assessment tools, presented “The…