Onboarding and offboarding: how to handle IT access securely

A new employee should be able to work on day one. And when someone leaves, they should no longer have access to your systems. It sounds obvious, but in practice things often go wrong here. Forgotten accounts, shared passwords or access that lingers are a real security risk. In this article you read how to handle onboarding and offboarding securely and smoothly.

Onboarding: working quickly and fully

When a new employee starts, you want everything ready: an account, the right apps, access to the folders that belong to the role and a secure login. In a well-configured Microsoft 365 workplace you arrange that centrally, with fixed profiles per role. So you do not have to figure out what someone needs every time.

Offboarding: revoke access immediately and fully

This is where it often goes wrong. A departing employee sometimes keeps access to mail, files or apps for weeks. With proper offboarding you revoke all access at one moment, secure the account and make sure data is preserved for colleagues. No loose ends.

Why this is a security matter

Old accounts and lingering access are a favourite target for attackers, and a risk in a data breach. For demonstrably secure working, also with NIS2 in mind, a tight onboarding and offboarding process is simply part of it. It is one of the basic measures of good security.

How to handle it without hassle

We set up the onboarding and offboarding process for you, so a new employee works right away and a departing one is shut off immediately and fully. Schedule a no-obligation consultation and we will look at how to make this smoother for you.