Key takeaways:

Staffing firms are prime targets because they broker vast amounts of sensitive candidate and client data across sprawling third‑party platforms. Today’s biggest risks — ransomware, phishing/business email compromise, and insider error — exploit identity and vendor weaknesses more than firewalls. A staffing‑specific security framework, coupled with behavior‑changing training, rehearsed incident response, and right‑sized cyber insurance, reduces risk without slowing recruiting.

Staffing leaders sit at the center of an enormous data exchange: résumés and IDs, background checks, I‑9s, bank routing details for direct deposit, medical screening results, client contracts, timecards, and vendor integrations. That concentration of