The risks of inefficient employee offboarding
By 2026, up to 70% of corporate data leaks will be linked to inefficient offboarding processes. Failing to properly revoke former employees' access to systems remains a critical vulnerability.
Industry implications
For businesses and the IT industry, manual and inefficient access management leads to severe consequences. These include unauthorized database access, leaks of trade secrets, significant reputational damage, and heavy regulatory fines for data protection non-compliance.
What to do
To minimize risks, companies are advised to implement comprehensive technical and organizational measures:
- Automation: using Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems for instant access revocation.
- Monitoring: deploying SIEM and DLP to track suspicious activity after employee departure.
- Zero Trust concept: continuous user verification, where any access attempt post-termination is automatically blocked.
Solutions from Ukrainian developers
Members of Intecracy Group offer technologies to address these challenges. IQusion implements information security systems and conducts audits of offboarding processes in compliance with national standards. Softline automates access revocation and monitoring for the public sector. SL Global Service provides cloud security, integrating IAM, SIEM, and DLP solutions into cloud environments based on Zero Trust principles.
Prepared by a Software Ukraine member. Original publication.