Departing Employee Investigation

Employee departures can create significant security and intellectual property concerns—particularly when an employee has access to sensitive information.

ThreatFlex investigates potentially suspicious activity occurring before or after an employee's departure.

You may want to investigate activity such as:

• Large or unusual file transfers before resignation
• Copying sensitive company information
• Transfers to personal cloud storage
• Use of USB devices
• Emailing confidential files externally
• Access to information outside normal job responsibilities
• Deletion or alteration of company information
• Suspicious activity after an employee's departure

ThreatFlex can examine digital activity surrounding an employee's departure to help determine:

• What information was accessed
• What files or systems were involved
• When suspicious activity occurred
• Whether information was copied or transferred
• Whether activity occurred before or after departure
• Whether additional investigation may be warranted

Employee departures often involve rapid changes to accounts, devices, and access.

Before reimaging devices, deleting accounts, or making other changes that could affect evidence, consider preserving relevant digital evidence.

ThreatFlex can help establish the scope and preserve evidence before conducting forensic analysis.

A departing-employee investigation can help connect seemingly unrelated events into a clear sequence:

ACCESS → COPY → TRANSFER → DEPARTURE

The objective is to establish what the evidence shows and provide a defensible account of the activity.

IDENTIFY — Establish the suspected activity.

PRESERVE — Secure relevant evidence.

ANALYZE — Conduct forensic analysis.

INVESTIGATE — Reconstruct the activity timeline.

REPORT — Deliver clear, defensible findings.

Don't wait until the evidence is gone. 

ThreatFlex provides nationwide digital investigation services for organizations of all sizes.