Where in the Employee Life Cycle?

About this interactive

The Personnel Management lesson treats an employee like any other asset with a life cycle, and gives security a part in each stage. Candidate: before the person is hired. Security helps set the technical and security requirements for the role, screens out applicants who do not meet them, and makes sure a background check is run. Onboarding: bringing the new hire in. Accounts and access are set up, equipment is configured, secured and shipped in time for the first day, and training covers the equipment, the systems, how to reach the help desk, and the company's policies. Development: onboarding is over, but the employee is not yet fully up to speed. It can last weeks for a less technical role and a year or more for a technical one. Many companies set a probation period, often six months, with limits such as no vacation yet. Performance: the employee is fully proficient. Security keeps up ongoing awareness training, both new material and repetition, and keeps staff current as policies change. Separation: the employee leaves. Accounts and access are removed, equipment and licenses come back, and feedback is gathered to improve the process. A quick test for each card: is the person not yet hired, just arriving, still learning the job, fully proficient, or on the way out?

What you'll learn

Place a personnel task in its employee life cycle stage: candidate, onboarding, development, performance or separation
Tell development, when an onboarded employee is still getting up to speed, from performance, when the employee is fully proficient, and recognize security's part in each stage

Aligned to

ISC2 CISSP

1.8 Contribute to and enforce personnel security policies and procedures

NIST 800-53

PS-3 Personnel Screening

PS-4 Personnel Termination

Key terms

Employee Lifecycle: The stages an employee progresses through within an organization, including candidate, onboarding, development, performance, and separation, each with associated security responsibilities.
Onboarding: The process of integrating a new employee into an organization, including provisioning system access, assigning permissions, and providing security awareness training.
Offboarding: The process of revoking a departing or transitioning employee's system access and decommissioning their accounts to prevent unauthorized access.
Security Awareness Training: An ongoing program that educates employees about cybersecurity threats, safe practices, and organizational policies to reduce human-based risk. Effective training covers topics like phishing recognition, password hygiene, and social engineering.

Topics

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