Remote Employee Security Onboarding Checklist

The office checkpoints that remote work removed.

Fully remote hiring removes several security checkpoints that used to happen naturally when a new employee walked into an office: in-person identity confirmation, IT physically handing over a managed device, and a manager casually verifying that the person on their first day matches who was actually interviewed. This checklist rebuilds those checkpoints deliberately for a remote context — a separate onboarding-stage identity check, pre-configured managed devices rather than unmanaged personal ones, and MFA enrollment verified working before any access is granted.

• →Weights a separate onboarding-stage identity check as the highest-priority item, given rising deepfake candidate fraud
• →Covers company-managed device provisioning as distinct from unmanaged personal device use
• →Requires MFA enrollment verified working as a precondition for access, not a follow-up task
• →Includes offboarding planning done alongside onboarding, not improvised later
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