Privilege Risk Modeling
Map how access could be abused.
Model the systems, identities, permissions, and trust relationships attached to a proposed or existing role.
Workforce Risk Intelligence
Understand the security impact of access before it becomes exposure.
ShadowHire is a developing cybersecurity-informed workforce risk platform designed to help organizations evaluate how a role’s access, privilege, and reach could affect security posture.
Development status: ShadowHire is in product development. This page describes the intended direction and does not represent a generally available service.
Illustrative role-risk preview
Role Risk ProfileIllustrative
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Access impact score
Elevated privilege and movement potential12Privileged systems
4Critical access paths
HighBroad administrative reachIdentity and infrastructure
HighCross-system movement potentialMultiple trust relationships
MediumLimited separation of dutiesRole design review
Core Capabilities
Evaluate the risk attached to the role—not the person.
ShadowHire is intended to analyze authorized role and access data to support better role design, access governance, and workforce security decisions. It is not a background-check service and should not be used to make decisions based on protected personal characteristics.
Access Impact Scoring
Estimate the role’s potential blast radius.
Score the potential operational and security impact if the role’s account or privileges were compromised.
Role Risk Tiering
Classify roles consistently.
Group roles into defined risk tiers to support approval workflows, controls, and review requirements.
Insider-Risk Context
Identify access patterns requiring stronger safeguards.
Highlight excessive privilege, weak separation of duties, and high-value access paths without labeling individuals as threats.
How It Is Intended to Work
A structured review before access is granted or expanded.
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Define the role
Document responsibilities, required systems, privilege level, data access, and expected operational reach.
02
Model access
Map the role’s permissions, trust relationships, movement opportunities, and access to critical systems.
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Score impact
Calculate an explainable role-risk tier using privilege, exposure, criticality, and compensating controls.
04
Recommend safeguards
Identify least-privilege changes, MFA requirements, approval controls, monitoring, and periodic access reviews.
Potential Use Cases
Support risk-aware workforce and access decisions.
New role design
Evaluate access requirements before a privileged or sensitive role is approved.
Internal transfers
Review accumulated access and remove permissions that no longer match responsibilities.
Privileged-access reviews
Prioritize high-impact roles for stronger controls and more frequent recertification.
Account-compromise planning
Understand how far an attacker could move if a specific role account were compromised.
Build access around risk—not assumptions.
Talk with QSB about ShadowHire’s development direction, potential pilot use cases, or future availability.