Secure USB Drive

Employment transition?  Involuntary methodologies?  Redundancy?  Whatever you call it, when people leave your company, they present a security risk.  And in the current economic situation, with companies reorganising, making employee lay-offs and even closing offices, it’s likely that this type of security risk is going to increase over the next year.

Employees leaving the company might take sensitive data with them, either by accident or on purpose.  They may even decide to take data (such as customer details, transaction details and more) because they’re unhappy about being let go from the company.

In any case, you need to make sure your security policies and methods are fully up to date and include what to do in the event of staff leaving.  Being unprepared could well result in breaches of security.

This article gives a good step-by-step guide to putting security procedures in place to protect your organisation against these potential risks.  Of course, issuing employees with their own centrally managed, secure USB flash drives is a key part of this:  if the drive is not handed back to IT when the employee leaves, it can be terminated remotely, to avoid the risk of data loss through this vector.

So it’s worth taking time to prepare your company’s security exit strategy.