Coca-Cola had a serious insider breach in 2018 when a former employee was found to have PII on some 8,000 employees. Todayâs columnist, Neel Lukka of CurrentWare, offers eight security tips for offboarding employees when they leave the company. hectorirCreativeCommonsCredit: CC BY 2.0
Gaps in the employee offboarding process present significant data security risks. A shocking 52 percent of the 400 IT professionals surveyed by Ivanti know people who still have access to a former employerâs applications and data. Organizations simply cannot afford to overlook this security threat.
Employees have intimate access to confidential information and insider knowledge of corporate systems. The employee offboarding process presents significant data security risks, particularly in the case of an involuntary termination.