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10% of IT Pros Can Access Previous Jobs' Accounts
dinscott writes "According to a survey that examines how IT professionals and employees view the use of policies and technologies to manage and protect users' electronic identities, the sharing of work log-ins and passwords between co-workers is a regular occurrence. It's no wonder then that half of them are concerned about insider threats to network security in their company's current infrastructure! But one of the most surprising results shows that one in 10 IT professionals admit they have accounts from previous jobs, from which they can still access systems even though they've left the organization."
Sure I do. I didn't do it, so they can't prove I did. And I get to rub it in their faces- "You fired me, a competent employee, and hired some losers who can't even change a password. What idiots!!".
What makes you think they can't prove you did it just because you didn't do it? Do you really think no innocent man has ever been convicted of a crime they did not commit? Even if you can ultimately prove it in court, it could cause you quite a bit of inconvenience in the meantime -- the company just needs their forensics "expert" to convince the cops and a judge that you did it and they'll come take all of your computing equipment from your house.
Wouldn't you want to be able to give your defense attorney the letter you sent to your former boss that gives step by step instructions for making sure all of your points of entry into their network have been closed. If the company is as incompentent as you suspect, you should do everything you can to protect yourself in case they get breached.
Even when my company was bought by idiots (who ran it into the ground within months), on my last day I sat down with the new Network Admin and my former boss and we went through the letter to make sure all of the network/admin passwords were changed and the firewall "backdoor" into the DMZ from my home IP address was removed.