Every employee generates a vast personal data trail: career history, hobbies, family details, health information, location data, even subtle behavioral patterns. When this information is available online, via public records, data brokers, breaches, ad tracking, or social media, it becomes a rich attack surface for threat actors, competitors, and malicious insiders.
90%+ of breaches exploit employees inside the security perimeter through social engineering.
Attackers can now reverse-engineer behavioral models to predict decision-making and emotional responses.
AI tools can mimic voices, writing styles, and communication habits to convincingly impersonate staff and executives.
Competitors can use exposed data for talent poaching, corporate espionage, or reputation attacks.
Marks & Spencer Cyberattack (2025) – Attackers used detailed employee role knowledge to trick IT into password resets, bypassing technical defenses.
Arup Deepfake Scam (2024) – AI-generated video calls of senior executives convinced employees to transfer $25M.
ObscureIQ defines this as the Human Data Perimeter; the sum of all personal and professional information that could be weaponized against your company.
This includes:
We can provide role-specific protection for every tier of your workforce:
Digital Footprint Reduction: Identify and remove personal data from high-risk sources before it can be exploited.
Continuous Threat Monitoring: Detect doxing attempts, impersonations, and credential leaks across surface, deep, and dark web environments.
Breach & Data Broker Intelligence: Leverage our CODEX of Commercial Surveillance (over 8,600 orgs) for targeted removal and suppression.
Executive & Employee Privacy Training: Equip staff to recognize manipulation attempts and reduce cognitive vulnerabilities.
Protecting your people is protecting your brand. Employee data privacy builds trust, resilience, and a competitive edge in an environment where the cost of inaction can be millions of dollars. Or your reputation.
ObscureIQ helps you shrink the human threat surface before it becomes your next breach headline.