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The Developer Offboarding Security Checklist
2026-02-28·6 min read·SecurSSH Team
Why Offboarding Is a Security Emergency
A recent survey found that 40% of organizations take more than a week to fully revoke access after an employee or contractor leaves. That's a week of potential unauthorized access to production systems, customer data, and internal tools.
The Checklist
SSH & Server Access
☐Revoke SSH keys from all servers
☐Remove from SSH access management tools (SecurSSH, etc.)
☐Invalidate any SSH certificates
☐Check for personal keys added directly to authorized_keys files
Cloud & Infrastructure
☐Revoke AWS/GCP/Azure IAM credentials
☐Remove from Kubernetes RBAC
☐Invalidate API tokens and service accounts
☐Check for personal access tokens in CI/CD systems
Application Access
☐Disable SSO/SAML account
☐Revoke GitHub/GitLab organization access
☐Remove from monitoring tools (Datadog, Grafana, PagerDuty)
☐Revoke Slack/Teams access to internal channels
Secrets & Credentials
☐Rotate any shared credentials the person had access to
☐Invalidate VPN certificates
☐Check password managers for shared vaults
☐Rotate API keys for services they managed
How SecurSSH Simplifies This
With SecurSSH, SSH access revocation is one click. Remove the user, and all server access is instantly revoked. No need to SSH into each server. No keys to hunt for. The audit log confirms revocation happened.
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