Vendor Offboarding: Best Practices for Ensuring Security | UpGuard

This blog post outlines the security risks associated with vendor offboarding—such as residual access, data retention and leakage, physical access, contractual/compliance gaps, and malicious human factors—and provides best practices (timely access revocation, asset recovery, secure data deletion and backups, audits and continuous monitoring, updated documentation, and contractual/legal oversight) to reduce the likelihood of data breaches and other security incidents when ending third-party relationships.