Cleared for Discussion Podcast | Episode 55 | Right Outside the Wire

In this episode, Tabetha Baume examines how foreign adversaries are exploiting hiring processes, personnel, business partnerships, and AI to gain access to sensitive organizations and government systems. She explores North Korean remote IT workers, insider recruitment near military installations, foreign-linked partnerships, and AI-assisted cyberattacks to demonstrate how seemingly routine interactions can become intelligence collection and security threats. Her key message is that organizations must strengthen identity verification, insider threat awareness, foreign contact reporting, and security procedures while creating a culture where employees recognize and report suspicious activity before it becomes a larger threat.