Ivanti, the company that unifies IT to better manage and secure
the digital workplace, today announced survey results that find significant
gaps in the compliant management of employee resources throughout the
employment lifecycle. Just 15% of employees have all the resources they require
to be productive on day one, further, more than half (52%) of IT professionals
know someone who still has access to a former employer's applications and data.
When
it comes to employee onboarding, 38% of IT professionals report it takes
between two and four days to get a new employee everything they need to do
their job, while 27% say accomplishing this goal can take more than a week.
This is concerning as 92% of respondents say that there is a clear correlation
between people being onboarded productively and their overall company
satisfaction.
As
employees change roles in the organization, just over half (55%) of respondents
are confident that unnecessary access rights have been removed to reflect their
role changes. These changes are still largely made through manual processes,
with 54% doing it all manually, 37% using a combination of some automation and
manual processes, and only 9% leveraging full automation.
Offboarding
employees presents even greater risk. Just over one-in-four (26%) respondents
said it can take more than a week to fully deprovision an employee. When
considering the most recent employee to leave their company, nearly half of IT
professionals are only somewhat confident that the former
employee no longer has access to the organization's critical systems and
information. Further, on the topic of the security risk of employees that
aren't properly deprovisioned, the survey found what terrified IT professionals
the most was:
- The
risk of the leakage of sensitive data (38%)
- The
risk of a cybersecurity hack through an unmanaged account (26%)
- The
risk of malicious data detection/theft (24%)
"Our
findings make it very clear that organizations are still wildly lacking in
compliant identity governance and administration tools and processes," said
Duane Newman, vice president, product management at Ivanti. "Automation can
play a very critical role in the effective onboarding and offboarding of
employees and closer attention to employee lifecycle management will also
dramatically help to avoid the critical risk of a data breach or cybersecurity
hack."
The
complete survey findings can be found here