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At this scale, having someone take care of deleting double/expired accounts is just good hygiene and I would not consider that useless. Forgotten accounts are a
by Xylakant 4y ago
At this scale, having someone take care of deleting double/expired accounts is just good hygiene and I would not consider that useless. Forgotten accounts are a security risk.
- papito 4y agoThe bigger question is why such a large bank does not have solid off-boarding procedures.
- Xylakant 4y agoAny off-boarding procedure fails - at that scale, if even one in one thousand fails, you can expect a couple of failures per year. ensuring these get caught is part of "solid offboarding".
- orwin 4y agoThey had that on the financial side. The eng/HR side was behind for sure.
- anon400232 4y agoHello tip, meet iceberg.
- pixl97 4y agoDo you even begin to understand how many applications a large bank actually manages?
- papito 4y agoThat's not an excuse. If a bank can make sure that they do not mistakenly just deposit free money into people's accounts by mistake, they can ensure that a person who has left (possibly on bad terms) does not keep access to critical systems. That's an entity that specializes in RISK MANAGEMENT.
- bushbaba 4y agoA security risk which only gets worth with time.
- chasd00 4y agoforgotten account that a former employee can re-activate or login with? I would think banks would be fined by regulators or risk their license over even a single instance of that.