Laid off? Don’t leave your personal security with your former employer

Last Thursday’s 10 important categories of employment transition security discussed several areas where a business should spend some time considering, developing, and implementing security measures related to employment transitions. The period of transition, from just before to a few months after an employee leaves an organization for any reason, can be a period of increased vulnerability for the organization’s information technology resources.

There is another side to the coin, however. There’s job security, of course, though that isn’t the kind of “security” we’ll discuss here. Matters of information technology security are not entirely one-sided, after all; individual employees have such concerns as well. Matters of privacy are particularly important to consider as an employee, in case of future employment transitions. After all, privacy is security.