IT Employee Termination Checklist
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Protocols for Offboarding IT Personnel
This checklist outlines steps to follow when an IT employee stops working for a company. It should be modified to reflect each organization’s specific employee termination process.
Sample checklist items include: remove network account access by disabling accounts; change website access passwords, including OWA; change all switch, router and firewall passwords; check for services or applications using the former administrator's personal account; change the phone system passwords and administrator account names; change all server program access passwords; change all service account passwords and verify service operation after changing the passwords; and more.