Why user provisioning matters

All it takes is a single employee to bring an organisation's network to its knees.

It is time for user provisioning to shine. For too long, IT departments have isolated account provisioning, making it a standalone process, ignoring how destructive a provisioning mistake can be. But user provisioning, the very act of providing the workforce with network access, is absolutely fundamental to an organisation's security and risk posture.

There are a plethora of scenarios in which poor provisioning can result in upsetting, and massively expensive, data leaks. The best defense against such disasters is to fully understand the significance of provisioning, as well as, preparing for the worst. And the worst can be costly. Last year, Kaiser Permanente was fined US$250,000 after more than 20 employees accessed medical records for Nadya Suleman, known in the media as the "Octomom." But the threat of data leaks isn't, by any stretch, limited to high-profile scenarios involving celebrities.

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