A common shortcoming of human resources (HR) departments is that — despite being an operation designed to put humans at the center of how an organization is run — they often fail to adequately align with their IT counterparts and the core technology systems that define how a business is run and protected from cyber-risk. Insufficient coordination between HR and IT processes and procedures remains common and gives rise to security gaps that can represent some of the most dangerous vulnerabilities on a company’s attack surface.

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