Can ex-employees access your systems?

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Created: Monday, 01 November 2021

Written by Jonathan Hobson

30% of ex-employees can still access their previous employers files and email. So they could maliciously delete, spy, tamper or sell information.

Even if they have no malicious intent - having an unused and unmonitored account means no one may notice if it is compromised.

It is a huge GDPR fail.

That’s why telanova has a leaver procedure for our customers: This includes:

• Do we need to do anything before they leave?
• Reset passwords
• Disable accounts
• Change “shared” passwords (e.g. Wi-Fi)
• Grant their manager access to their email and files
• Remotely wipe business data from personal devices
• Remove them from phone systems, websites etc
• Set an out of office message

Engage telanova as your IT team and we will advise you so you can avoid potentially costly data protection mistakes.