When Attackers Get Hired: Today's New Identity Crisis

What if the star engineer you just hired isn't actually an employee, but an attacker in disguise? This isn't phishing; it's infiltration by onboarding.

Meet "Jordan from Colorado," who has a strong resume, convincing references, a clean background check, even a digital footprint that checks out.

On day one, Jordan logs into email and attends the weekly standup, getting a warm welcome from the team. Within hours, they have access to repos, project folders, even some copy/pasted dev keys to use in their pipeline.

A week later, tickets close faster, and everyone's impressed. Jordan makes insightful observations about the environment, the tech stack, which tools are misconfigured, and which approvals are rubber-stamped.

But Jordan wasn

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