Disgruntled employees can be potentially dangerous to the whole company’s well-being due to cybercrimes that can affect the entire company’s work. Unhappy workers formerly had access to the company’s databases and services. Therefore, cybercrime prevention measures for offboarded employees are one of the essential issues to be addressed in modern companies. I have learned from the article that various strategies and protection measures can be implemented to prevent the abovementioned situation. The first crime-prevention action is to assess employees’ risks of intruding into the system. In other words, implementing the enterprise-wide risk assessment, including monitoring the employees’ activities, should be implemented (Strickland, n.d.). The second idea is to assign access privileges to different employees and distribute access among workers. The last protection measure proposes information protection programs helping to identify malicious code from within.
Being the president and CEO of Statewide Coalition Against Sexual Assault, I can highlight that our company addresses the issue of cyber threats of offboarding employees. As a result of the constant development of security considerations, from my perspective, the company is not at risk of being hacked by ex-employees. The complete risk prevention of such threats cannot be guaranteed (Strickland, n.d.). However, because the company strives to implement new security start-ups to protect the customer’s information, it allows us to minimize the risks of cybercrimes. For example, recently, the company started to work with Lacework, which ensures the security of the information stored in the digital cloud (Fitzgerald, 2022). Moreover, the HR management department strives to establish comfortable conditions for employees focusing on improving their motivation through reinforcements. The process of offboarding is usually performed with respect to the former employees.
References
Fitzgerald, J. (2022). 5 cybersecurity startups that recently laid off workers. CRN. Web.
Strickland, D. (n.d). Employee offboarding: How to keep data safe during a termination. CurrentWare. Web.