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53% of IT managers are largely unaware of employee access rights to systems!This causes a proliferation of zombie accounts – accounts that remain active after employees have left the company.
However, these same administrators say they have a high level of confidence that zombie accounts cannot trigger a malicious attack or perpetrate a data leak, despite high-profile evidence to the contrary. This is according to a global survey of 236 business managers from large enterprises.
Other key survey results include:
Security risks are now higher than ever!
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- Nearly one in three companies (30%) still manually provision user accounts, increasing the likelihood of human error or delays when de-provisioning departing employees – and ultimately the risk of data theft via zombie accounts.
- Almost half (48%) of organisations currently take more than one business day to alert IT departments of employee terminations.
- Close to one quarter (23%) of companies surveyed also take another day or more to switch off employee access to their systems, creating a substantial window of opportunity for malicious former employees.
- Almost 1 in 10 companies (9%) said they could never be completely certain that terminated employees no longer have access to IT systems.
- More than one third (34%) of business managers reported that it can take up to a week or longer to be completely certain that terminated employees do not have access to systems.
Security risks are now higher than ever!
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