Ex-Employees Leaving with the Keys to Company Data
In July 2014 alone, 940,000 people in the Professional and Business Services industry left their jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The question is: How much power and access do those people still have over company data?
A study from Intermedia and Osterman Research found that 89 percent of former employees retained access (i.e. valid login and password) to sensitive corporate applications such as Salesforce, PayPal, and email, and 45 percent retained access to “confidential” or even “highly confidential” data after leaving the company. Almost half had logged into a company account after departing.