offboarding
Safeguard articles tagged "offboarding" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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An Engineer's First Week Sets Their Access for Three Years
Whatever they are granted on day two, they keep, because nothing removes it and asking for less is not a thing people do. The decisions get made by whoever is unblocking them at the time.
Anyone With the Link Is Not an Access Control
It is the absence of one, with a long identifier standing in for a decision about who should see the thing. Products ship it because customers need it, and then nobody can list what has been shared.
The Contractor Offboarding Nobody Ever Did
Every offboarding process is triggered by a termination event in a directory. A contractor's engagement ending produces an invoice, not a directory change, so nothing downstream fires and the account stays live.
Disabling the SSO Account Did Not Remove Their Access
SSO centralises authentication. It does not end existing sessions, revoke tokens issued through other paths, or touch the tools that were never federated. Deprovisioning is a credential problem, and credentials outlive identities by design.
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