SE-A-01Level 1 · Signal
Publicly visible role (exec, finance, HR)
- Access
- Neutral
- Level 1 · Signal
An access signal from the HR system or directory: the person holds a role attackers can find and target from public sources, such as executive, finance, HR or legal.
Classification
- Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
- Evidence level
- Maturity practices One capability a program performs, scored on its own: See, Understand, Act, Prove, Govern and Culture.
- Leads to The kind of breach the evidence beneath it points toward, each anchored to a Verizon DBIR or VERIS pattern or an FBI IC3 category.
- NIST CSF 2.0
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- ID.AM-05
- MITRE ATT&CK
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- T1591
The definition, in detail
Definition
It raises the weight of every threat and behavior signal on them.
Example
A new CFO appears on the company website and a professional network the week she starts, and impersonation attempts against her team begin within a month.
How it is measured
- Source
- HR system
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- Directory attribute
- Risk domain
- Social engineering
- Provenance
- Forrester, Gartner
How it is used
Programs count "Publicly visible role (exec, finance, HR)" per person from HR system and read it beside the other Social engineering signals; it feeds 0 cohorts, 0 sequences and 2 breach scenarios.
A "publicly visible role (exec, finance, HR)" record is evidence of what the person could expose (the access side of the model). It describes reach; it records no action by the person and no attack under way.
Technical mappings
Framework mappings; validate for your use case.
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The initial assessment
Find your level.Then fix what matters.
18 questions, about 4 minutes and nothing to type before the result: your level, a score for each practice and three first playbooks, each Easy, Medium or Hard.