The Great Resignation and its Greatest Impacts to the Business

With the availability of vaccinations, there was a hope that business might become normal after having survived the tremors of huge financial losses and massive layoffs. However, organizations are experiencing the Great Resignation era, where millions of employees have either left or plan to leave their jobs. From a cybersecurity perspective, this is a significant business risk to the organization because whenever an employee leaves, you run the risk of your data, or access to it, leaving with them. Even when a worker parts ways with a company amicably, a vulnerability can arise if their access to your digital infrastructure is not efficiently terminated. Criminal hackers will try almost anything to get inside a profitable enterprise and secure a million-dollar payday from a ransomware infection. Apparently, now that includes Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) organizations that are emailing employees directly and asking them to unleash the malware inside their employer’s network in exchange for a percentage of millions of dollars of ransom paid by the victim company. This has led the insider threat to become one of the critical risks to the organization that needs to be addressed quickly, before it’s too late. This talk will focus on the risks and the steps organizations need to take to address and mitigate the risks caused by the Great Resignation.