Recently I attended a presentation by Dr. Chloe Wilson, an expert in the organizational dynamics of moral harm that arise from witnessing or participating in activities that run against a person's own moral or ethical code. This may sound abstract, but relying on trite college-sophomore retorts -- whose morals, whose ethics? -- misses the point entirely. Wilson's research doesn't measure harm against some external moral standard, it measures whether the person themself  perceives a violation of their own values. That sidesteps the sophomoric relativism question rather than getting stuck in it. The grind of high-op-tempo work in a SOC can wear on someone's sense of right and wrong, or their professional pride, whether or not anyone outside them would agree there's anything to object to. Brendan's posts on threats arising from unintentional damage, negligence, and malice are strong statements about conceptualization of traditional insider threat. They describe ...