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Risk Monitoring

Beyond the Background Check: Why Risk Monitoring Is Critical for Building Trust

Christina Tattory
September 5, 2025

Trust is the foundation of every workplace—but it’s built on more than clean background checks. It’s built on confidence that the people representing your organization remain aligned with your values, policies, and risk thresholds.

And in a workforce that changes fast, that kind of trust requires ongoing visibility—not just a point-in-time screen. People’s lives change, and so do their risk profiles, and when oversight stops at onboarding or is only done annually, businesses are left exposed.

From Individual Incidents to Behavioral Patterns

Risk rarely appears all at once. It often evolves over time, sometimes rapidly, like multiple arrests over a short period or increasingly severe charges.

Individually, these incidents might seem manageable. But together, they create a pattern that reveals a person’s changing risk profile. Without continuous oversight, those patterns go unnoticed, and organizations may not be able to prevent escalation until it’s too late—potentially leading to safety breakdowns, brand damage, and/or legal liability.

And with today’s evolving workforce, where nearly one-third of working-age adults in the U.S. have a criminal record (NSCL), reliable, ongoing visibility is more critical than ever.

Monitoring That Moves as Fast as Risk

InformData’s Risk Monitoring solves this challenge for businesses – enabling the critical shift from reactive to proactive risk management. It provides always-on visibility into new activity, including arrests, warrants, criminal and traffic charges, and sex offender registry matches.

In addition to real-time, continuous oversight, it connects the dots, revealing trends and showing how an individual’s risk profile is evolving over time. This context is critical. Real-time alerts create awareness, but understanding what those alerts mean is what empowers more informed decisions.

Risk Monitoring delivers this clarity by translating convictions into post-hire risk scores. By standardizing risk into a measurable score, you or your customers gain a forward-looking tool to:

  • Benchmark exposure across teams, roles, or time periods
  • Spot emerging risk patterns before they escalate
  • Strengthen long-term strategies for workforce resilience

Flexible by design, the solution can be deployed as Criminal Monitoring, Driver Monitoring, or a combined approach, with criteria that can be tailored to certain industries, roles, and risk thresholds.

It's an enhancement to standard people monitoring tools—a way to know not just what’s happening, but what it means, with the lead time and understanding to act proactively with confidence.

Trust Is Built on Facts. We Deliver Them in Real Time.

At its core, Risk Monitoring isn’t about surveillance. It’s about protecting workplace integrity—giving HR, legal, and compliance teams the insights they need to support people and policies, before minor issues turn into major consequences.

Risk doesn’t stop after hiring. With Risk Monitoring, businesses are equipped to detect patterns early and take action to safeguard employees and customers, minimize risk, protect their brands, and ultimately, build trust where it matters most.

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