June 5, 2025
Layoffs across industries and federal agencies have impacted millions of workers this year alone. But these mass reductions also pose challenges to organizations’ overall cybersecurity posture. The hard-earned lessons that have changed their approach to cybersecurity.
Companies need to exercise some situational awareness and manage the risk, says Todd Thorsen, CISO at CrashPlan. Disgruntled employees extracting data and selling access to hackers are an attack vector that’s bound to increase along with layoffs, and remaining employees may be disgruntled, too. Crashplan found one in 20 employees admit they have engaged in rage deletion before walking out of a job. Younger workers are twice as likely to do so, with 1 in 10 Gen Zers admitting to it.
“There’s going to be an upheaval at the organization,” Thorsen says. “People are not going to be happy.”
Read the full article here: https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/prep-layoffs-before-compromise-security
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