Why you should disable accounts

Why do companies in this day and age continue to leave employee’s system accounts active after the employee has turned in their resignation? Even if they have comp/vacation time coming disable their accounts.   If an employee turns in their resignation then their account should be disabled right then.

Here is an article from computerworld.com that says it all.  “Former Intel engineer charged with stealing trade secrets”.

Yet another reason to make sure that you have a Log Management solution in place and that you have the correct auditing turned on.  

Something that all us admins need to get in the habit of doing is to review the reports DAILY that your Log Management solution is providing.