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    The Clock Is Running: NIS2 and ZKI Deadlines for 2026 and 2027
    For most Czech NIS2 entities, year one ends in December 2026, and listed critical infrastructure entities are already on the clock. The deadlines, the supplier obligations, and the screening evidence to have ready.
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  • The Overemployed Problem: Why Secret Double-Dippers Hurt Teams
    The Overemployed Problem: Why Secret Double-Dippers Hurt Teams
    Overemployment, meaning secret overlapping full-time jobs, creates legal, security, and productivity risks. It shows up in payroll, behavioural, device and SSO, and résumé checks. Because screening is only a snapshot, mitigate it with clear moonlighting policies, trained managers, stronger verification, and tighter access controls.
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  • The Value of Background Checks: Building Trust in a Complex World
    The Value of Background Checks: Building Trust in a Complex World
    In today’s fast-paced, interconnected business environment, background checks protect your hiring, vendor, and partnership investments by providing the information needed to make confident decisions, turning trust into a strategic advantage.
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  • Are you ready for NIS 2? You should be
    Are you ready for NIS2? You should be
    EU Member States were required to transpose NIS2 by 17 October 2024, following a 21-month period that began on 16 January 2023. The directive tightens cybersecurity controls, including personnel vetting. Non-compliance risks enforcement action, heavy fines and reputational damage, which makes robust background screening essential.
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  • Insider Threats in Europe – Why Background Screening is a Critical Tool for HR Departments
    Insider Threats in Europe: Why Background Screening is a Critical Tool for HR Departments
    In July 2024, CISA issued guidance for HR teams on preventing insider threats. Between sensitive industries, polarised politics and geopolitical instability, European HR teams face rising risks as hostile states and cybercriminals target infrastructure and intellectual property, pushing insider-threat prevention to the forefront.
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  • Regular screening – why aren’t you doing it?
    Regular screening: why aren’t you doing it?
    In today’s complex, risk-laden environment, finance, healthcare, education and transport rely on ongoing staff screening to protect sensitive data, vulnerable people and high-value assets. Regular background checks are not optional.
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  • A Warning: Foreign Infiltration of Western Companies
    A Warning: Foreign Infiltration of Western Companies
    U.S. prosecutors charged Christina Marie Chapman with running a “laptop farm” that let North Korean IT workers use stolen identities to infiltrate more than 300 U.S. firms between 2020 and 2023, earning millions and gaining access to sensitive systems. The case highlights a rising infiltration threat to Western companies, European ones included.
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  • The Imperative of Proper Staff Screening for the 2024 Olympics
    The Imperative of Proper Staff Screening for the 2024 Olympics
    Rigorous staff screening is essential at any Olympic Games, because the integrity of the event depends on thousands of people behind the scenes, and history shows that lapses in vetting can have serious consequences.
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  • The Hidden Threat: Espionage in Europe and the Importance of Knowing Your Employees
    The Hidden Threat: Espionage in Europe and the Importance of Knowing Your Employees
    Recent espionage cases across Europe, reaching parliamentary researchers and political aides, show hostile intelligence services penetrating high offices. They expose a critical vulnerability: insufficient employee vetting. Robust, ongoing background checks are essential to national and corporate security, and to reducing insider risk.
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  • The Escalation of AI in Fake Identity Crime: A Growing Concern
    The Escalation of AI in Fake Identity Crime: A Growing Concern
    AI is transforming technology, but it is also powering sophisticated fake-identity crime, from synthetic personas to manipulated credentials used for fraud and deception. This post surveys recent cases, emerging tactics, the societal and security implications, and how organisations can respond.
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  • Geopolitical tensions driving workforce screening
    Geopolitical tensions driving workforce screening
    The push for stringent workforce screening is increasingly driven by the need to meet cyber, physical and organisational security standards. Those standards are themselves a response to an increasingly volatile geopolitical landscape. The aim is to secure critical infrastructure and keep essential services running, with potential threats accounted for in advance.
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  • HR and staying Compliant
    HR and Staying Compliant
    In a hiring landscape shaped by geopolitical tension, cyber threats and socioeconomic strain, HR sits on the front line. It has to deliver a thoroughly vetted, security-aware workforce while meeting rising compliance demands from SOC 2, NIS2, ISO 27001 and CER. This article looks at how those standards are reshaping HR.
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  • Understanding GDPR in HR Screening: A Guide for Recruiters
    Understanding GDPR in HR Screening: A Guide for Recruiters
    Workforce screening is vital for verifying candidates, but GDPR heightens HR’s responsibility to conduct only lawful, transparent and proportionate checks, protecting personal data and avoiding breaches of the rules.
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