Onboarding Gap or Offboarding Gap?

About this interactive

The Onboarding and Termination Procedures lesson calls these two the most critical points in an employee's time with the company, from a security standpoint, and puts the same three things at the center of both: accounts, equipment and training. Onboarding sets the tone. The new hire needs the right system accounts and groups, the right software and licenses, cloud access, and equipment that is set up, secured and shipped before the first day. Training covers the equipment, the systems, the help desk, the company's policies and security. Get it wrong and the problems show up later: access the role does not call for, an unsecured device, or someone who never learned the rules. Offboarding closes the doors. Accounts are turned off, systems returned, licenses sent back into inventory, hardware collected. Get it wrong and a former employee or contractor keeps a way in. The lesson's advice for both: document the process, so it runs the same way every time and no step is missed. A quick test for each card: is the person whose access, equipment or training went wrong just starting, or already gone?

What you'll learn

Trace a personnel security problem to the process that let it happen: onboarding or offboarding
Recognize the risks of each: an onboarding gap sets a new hire up with the wrong access, equipment or training, and an offboarding gap leaves a former worker's access, equipment or licenses in place

Aligned to

CompTIA Security+

5.1 Summarize elements of effective security governance.

NIST 800-53

PS-4 Personnel Termination

AC-2 Account Management

ISC2 CISSP

1.8 Contribute to and enforce personnel security policies and procedures

Key terms

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.
Account Provisioning: The process of creating, configuring, and managing user accounts and access rights when an employee joins or leaves an organization.

Topics

Personnel Security Onboarding Offboarding Interactive Streak Sort

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