A multi-national company has a highly mobile workforce and minimal IT infrastructure. The company utilizes a BYOD and social media policy to integrate presence technology into global collaboration…

Insider threat describes risk from malicious or negligent employees with privileged internal access, which is not the concern raised about employee safety during international travel.

Network reconnaissance involves systematically probing infrastructure to map attack surfaces, and is unrelated to the personal safety risk created by broadcasting an employee's physical location.

Presence technology is designed to share live status and location data across collaboration platforms, which is useful internally but creates a physical security risk when employees travel internationally. In countries with elevated political or criminal risk, adversaries - including state actors or criminal organizations - can leverage presence data to track, intercept, or threaten employees and their families. The company's concern about safety while moving in and out of certain countries maps directly to this physical security downside.

Industrial espionage is the theft of proprietary business information or trade secrets, which is a separate concern from the physical safety of employees and their families in dangerous regions.