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Background & Approach

Tessera Semita was founded by N.A. Palmer to address a gap in the insider risk field that existing tools do not cover: the structural conditions that make insider threats possible in the first place. While behavioral analytics detect what someone is doing, structural analysis measures what someone could do based on their position, relationships, and access within the organization.

The methodology draws on social network analysis, graph theory, and intelligence tradecraft to produce a quantified map of structural opportunity across an organization's workforce. The result is a measurement of the threat surface itself. The methods are independent of any individual's intent or behavior, designed with human-to-human principles that track where opportunity exposure actually concentrates to better serve resource allocation. This proactive system serves inquiry and provides empirical opportunity mapping of an organization, keeping your insider threat team one step ahead of the human variables that can gradually build into an incident.

This approach sits beyond current compliance frameworks. NISPOM, NITTF, EO 13587, DCSA, and CISA all address insider threat programs, but none require structural network topology mapping. Tessera Semita provides the layer that compliance does not reach.