Betsy was devastated. She had single-handedly invited a criminal into her company’s inner sanctum. She might as well have opened the door of the office building to a thief and offered him (or her—it took all sorts, she reminded herself) a cup of coffee. She felt like she’d just betrayed a family member.

Aly McDevitt is Data & Research Journalist at Compliance Week. She has a background in education and college consulting. Prior to teaching, she was an editor/author at Thomson Reuters, where she reported...