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Worried about Insider Risk? Pay More Attention to Offboarding

Insider risk in a frontline context: how optimized offboarding can help

By Cris Grossmann, CEO and Co-Founder, Beekeeper

Discussions of insider risk inevitably conjure images of disgruntled IT employees stealing sensitive data
from the comfort of an air-conditioned office. However, insider risk is significantly more complex, and any
business that fails to account for this complexity is courting potential disaster.

For one thing, insider risk is no longer confined to the cubicle: frontline workers are just as likely to come
into contact with — and potentially mishandle — proprietary information. Then there's the fact that many
of these insider incidents are not malicious but result from human error. In a frontline context, if someone
mistakenly allows an offboarding employee continued access to internal communication channels and
company information, the door is left open for that employee and hackers looking for a backdoor into a
company’s systems.

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