HRM-CORE-06Term
Workforce
Every identity that acts on an organization's systems and data: employees, contractors and AI agents. Each is a subject that can carry threat, access and behavior signals.
Example
An identity administrator lists employees, contractors and AI agents in one inventory and assigns each agent a human owner.
Also called
4How analysts, standards and vendors name the same idea.
- WorkforceLiving SecurityThe organization-scoped collection of people and AI agents. No analyst source opened includes AI agents yet.
- personnelNIST CSF 2.0
- personnel and relevant interested partiesISO/IEC 27001:2022
- humansVerizon DBIR
Sources
3Related terms
3"Workforce" (HRM-CORE-06), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/terms/workforce
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