All large companies have formal processes for both onboarding and offboarding. These include granting access to corporate IT systems after hiring, and revoking said access during offboarding. In practice, the latter is far less effective — with departing employees often retaining access to work information. What are the risks involved, and how to avoid them?
How access gets forgotten
New employees are granted access to the systems they need for their jobs. Over time, these accesses accumulate, but they’re not always issued centrally, and the process itself is by no means always standardized.