50% of Ex-Employees Still Have Access to Corporate Applications

Former employees increase the security risk for organizations failing to de-provision their corporate application accounts.

Nearly half of businesses say former employees are still able to access corporate accounts, a new study found.
Ex-employees pose a big security risk: Twenty percent of businesses have experienced data breaches by former staff, according to OneLogins new Curse of the Ex-Employees report. Of those, nearly half claim that more than 10% of all data breaches are the direct result of former workers.
Researchers conducted 500 interviews among IT employees who are at least partially responsible for security and make decisions about hardware, software, and cloud-based services. Half say ex-employees accounts remain active for longer than a day after they leave the company; 20% take a month or more to deprovision employees after they leave.
The more engrained someone is in an organization, the harder it is to deprovision. Two-thirds of respondents report on-site employees are toughest. Half of respondents dont use automated deprovisioning and must manually remove access to corporate applications, a lengthy process that increases the chance former employees can still access their accounts.
Read more details
here
.

Last News
▸ ArcSight prepares for future at user conference post HP acquisition. ◂ Discovered: 07/01/2025 Category: security	▸ Samsung Epic 4G: First To Use Media Hub ◂ Discovered: 07/01/2025 Category: security	▸ Many third-party software fails security tests ◂ Discovered: 07/01/2025 Category: security

**Cyber Security Categories**
Google Dorks Database	Exploits Vulnerability	Exploit Shellcodes

CVE List

Tools/Apps

News/Aarticles

Phishing Database

Deepfake Detection

Trends/Statistics & Live Infos

Tags:
50% of Ex-Employees Still Have Access to Corporate Applications