A list of the five most common mistakes that enterprises make when trying to secure cloud app data, as well as suggestions for keeping cloud environments safe moving forward.
Zombie Accounts
Zombie accounts: Employees who are no longer with the company but still have access
Companies use many SaaS applications to keep their critical business functions working. Typically, employees have individual accounts in each SaaS application. We often see companies continue to experience transactions in their SaaS applications from accounts of employees who left long ago. In general, these transactions originate from third-party applications that the ex-employees configured. These accounts can end up in the hands of hackers or malicious ex-employees, causing data leakage and non-compliance with internal and external regulations.
Organizations need to create and follow a process to immediately de-provision unused (zombie) user accounts.