In a recently released article on their website titled Unmanaged corporate login accounts are a significant source of risk, Andreas Faruki, Partner and Identity Management Lead for Deloitte Canada states:
“Most companies report that scrubbing old accounts requires a massive, long-term, manual effort, while still leaving 10% to 20% of the problem”
I urge you to read the details here.
Deloitte has done some significant fundamental research and analysis of real world enterprise identity data to verify the scope and nature of this problem. They are way ahead of the game in understanding the real issues and how to deal with them.
The main conclusions are:
- The risks of unmanaged login accounts are real
- These identity management risks affect all industry sectors
- Removing old login accounts is essential to robust identity management
Most importantly, Deloitte has build a service offering to solve this problem for large enterprises. I urge you to get in touch with them to explore it more.
(disclosure: The Deloitte solution uses components that I have had a hand in developing)
