C-level executives commonly present a unique combination of advanced permissions, mobility requirements and public personas that intensify the need to defend traditional attack surfaces.

Therefore, it’s important to adopt a deliberate, standalone checklist to eliminate errors and best position new executives for productivity and success while also securing the firm’s data when they leave.

Find out how in this checklist, created by Erik Eckel for TechRepublic Premium.

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When a boss makes a request, it’s tempting to provide senior executives with whatever they need. But within information technology departments, just following orders can prove a recipe for disaster.

To begin, IT staff must understand which C-level executives — CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CMOs, CIOs, CTOs, presidents, directors, officers and other senior officials — are supposed to receive which equipment, rights and access.

Those requirements typically shouldn’t be determined by IT departments but by the senior executives themselves. Once decided, it becomes the IT department’s sometimes-unenviable responsibility to remind these senior officials whenever requests exceed previously agreed-upon parameters.

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