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10 Tips for Maintaining Information Security During Layoffs

Insider cyberthreats are always an issue during layoffs -- but with record numbers of home-office workers heading for the unemployment line, it has never been harder to maintain cybersecurity during offboarding.
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Update Planning for Remote Employees With so many people working from home amid the pandemic, many terminations will affect employees who are not physically in an office. Handling their access control and other unique requirements may be new territory for some security managers. 'Unless controls were updated during the first phase of work-from-home, it's likely that the process governing employee separations wasn't changed to address how laptops, door badges, mobile phones, and any data on USB drives might be handled when there is no IT department to return corporate assets to,' says Mackey. (Image: Maria Sbytova, via Adobe Stock)

Update Planning for Remote Employees

With so many people working from home amid the pandemic, many terminations will affect employees who are not physically in an office. Handling their access control and other unique requirements may be new territory for some security managers.

"Unless controls were updated during the first phase of work-from-home, it's likely that the process governing employee separations wasn't changed to address how laptops, door badges, mobile phones, and any data on USB drives might be handled when there is no IT department to return corporate assets to," says Mackey.

(Image: Maria Sbytova, via Adobe Stock)

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