Zombie Accounts Should Strike Fear

Here are some eye-opening numbers related to systems-access risks:

• Roughly 467,000 nonfarm jobs were eliminated last month in the U.S.;

• Employees at many companies maintain 15 to 20 user accounts on a company’s network;

• These accounts grant users access to customer financial information, banking records, patient records, and other business-critical data; and

• Roughly 9.34 million user accounts needed to be shut off last month.

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