Revenge of the Ex-Employee
The news comes from identity management provider OneLogin, which commissioned Arlington Research to run 500 online interviews on a nationally representative sample of experienced non-managers and above who work in their company’s IT department decision-makers for hardware, software and cloud-based services. Across the board, the issue of ex-employee accounts was a concern. How online shoppers are more vulnerable to cyber attacks than ever A quarter (25 percent) of respondents take more than a week to deprovision a former employee and a quarter (25 percent) don’t know how long accounts remain active once the employee has left the company.”
What to Do About It
IT employees need to be aware of this security problem and should respond by tightening protocols. As with many other security concerns, staying proactive is key to solving the problem. Past studies have indicated that business leader remain unaware of the dangers they face: CEOs in particular, TechCo has reported in the past, are a problem: 75 percent admit that they “use applications and programs that are not approved by their IT department,” even while 91 percent acknowledge the security risk this poses.
