A recent episode of Darknet Diaries has a former intelligence officer explaining that the biggest threat of corruption is from within (its own employees being coerced). Often it’s people in bad moments in their life (divorce, serious illness, someone died, etc) that makes someone accept a bribe they would otherwise never have done. The argument is that the best way companies can protect against corporate espionage and other interference is treating their employees well, as it’s not often people that are structurally corrupt.

I suppose the same can be said about government employees, although the fact that it can be directly in the current government’s interest not to do that is another problem.