During the COVID-19 breakout many employees transitioned to work from home schedules. Many employees and contractors will carry on working from home even after the pandemic subsides. In this rapidly changing work dynamics, organizations of all sizes should examine their employee termination process. As soon as the decision to terminate an employee has been made, IT admin should receive a near real-time notification. IT admins are typically responsible for securing data, managing access to resources and maintaining permissions and access rights policies across the assets.
In our research we found that organizations with employees between 250 - 1500 display varying degree of . Unsurprisingly, a large percentage of companies and non-profit organizations have manual de-provisioning where the onus of timely withdrawing employee access across systems and databases is spread across the reporting manager, HR, IT administration.
Based on our experience configuring our SaaS product to help SMB companies manage employee termination, we recommend the following:
- Use software that automates termination workflow between HR system and downstream systems. Many of our customers use SecurEnds easy integration with such as Jira, ServiceNow to open de-provisioning tickets. Others prefer to use our Active Directory connector to de"