Employee Just Left? In 24 Hours, We'll Show You Exactly What They Can Still Access—And Lock It Down.

Emergency Microsoft 365 Security Audit for Sydney Businesses. When an employee leaves, their access doesn't automatically disappear. OneDrive links keep working. SharePoint permissions persist. Teams conversations remain searchable. And you have 30 days before Microsoft starts deleting their data.

We audit everything. Then we lock it down.

Sydney-based team
Essential Eight aligned
5–100 seat specialists
No lock-in contracts

The 30-Day Countdown

Day 1–7

Shared links still active. Email forwarding rules running. External collaborators retain access.

Day 7–14

Power Platform flows break or run without oversight. Cached mobile data accessible.

Day 14–30

IP may have already walked. Compliance exposure grows daily. Recovery options narrow.

After 30 days

Microsoft begins deleting OneDrive and mailbox data automatically. Gone forever.

48% of former employees retain some access after leaving. Not because IT is careless—M365 offboarding is genuinely complex.

What Most Business Owners Don't Know About Departing Employees

You disabled their account. You collected their laptop. You think they're locked out.

But there is so much more to do to offboard staff:

  • Shared links keep working
  • That “anyone with the link” access to your financial folder is still active forever.
  • 30-day deletion countdown
  • OneDrive and mailbox data starts disappearing after 30 days. Miss the window and it's gone forever.
  • Cross-tenant sharing persists
  • If they collaborated with external partners, those external users might still have access to your files and data.
  • No single dashboard
  • You can't see everything they had access to without checking lots of different Microsoft 365 admin dashboards.
  • Power Platform flows break
  • Automated processes they owned? Broken now. Or worse—running with no owner.

The Specific Risks for Sydney Businesses

  • Privacy Act exposure — ex-employee accessing client data
  • IP theft — sales person walking away with your CRM data
  • Financial fraud — accounts person with lingering payment system access
  • Compliance violations — auditor discovering unsecured ex-employee accounts

You need to quickly know what they could access.

The 24-Hour Emergency Access Lockdown

For Sydney businesses with 10–100 employees who need certainty now.

When you book an Emergency Access Audit, we drop everything and audit your departing employee's entire digital footprint within 24 hours.

Included:

Deliverable 1

Complete Access Inventory

The “What Could They Access” Report
We audit every corner of your M365 environment and document:

  • OneDrive files — every document they owned or accessed
  • SharePoint sites — all site permissions, inherited and unique
  • Email access — mailbox contents, delegates, forwarding rules
  • Teams conversations — chat history, channel access, shared files
  • External shares — active sharing links that still work
  • Power Platform — flows, apps, and automations they owned
  • Security groups — nested permissions and group memberships
  • Mobile devices — devices still enrolled, data cached locally

Deliverable 2

Risk Assessment

The “What Should Worry You” Summary
A prioritised breakdown of identified risks, ranked by severity and likelihood. You'll know exactly what needs immediate attention versus what can wait.

Deliverable 3

Ex-Staff Lockdown Execution

The Action Plan
We don't just hand you a report and walk away. We'll execute the entire lockdown—revoking access, removing shares, securing data, and documenting every action taken.

Simple Process. Zero Disruption.

  1. Book the Audit (Now)

    • Call (02) 8313 0464 or book online
    • We'll confirm within 2 hours during business hours
    • You provide: departing employee's email address and last day
    • We send secure access instructions

  2. We Audit (Within 24 Hours)

    • We connect to your M365 tenant (read-only access)
    • We scan permissions, shares, and access logs
    • We analyse inheritance, nested groups, and hidden access paths
    • We compile findings into a human-readable report

  3. We Deliver a Microsoft 365 Offboarding Outcome

    • Video call walkthrough of findings (30 minutes)
    • Written report with full documentation

What's Required From You

  • 15 minutes for initial phone call
  • Temporary admin access (revocable of course, and read-only)
  • Approval for us to document findings

Lock-down Microsoft 365 from Ex-Employees

What if the employee left days (or weeks) ago? Is it too late?

Do you need full admin access to our Microsoft 365?

What if the departing employee was an IT admin?

We're not in Sydney. Can you still help?

What if you don't find anything concerning?

Can we just do this ourselves?

What happens after the 24-hour audit?

How is this different from your free M365 Security Assessment?

Why Sydney Businesses Choose Our M365 Staff Offboarding Emergency Lockdown Service

Objectivity

“Why not just use our regular IT provider?”

If your internal IT set up the permissions, they're auditing their own work. We're objective outsiders. We look at what's actually there, not what someone remembers configuring. Fresh eyes catch what familiarity misses.

Local Expertise

“Why a Sydney MSP vs. a national provider?”

  • We understand Australian privacy laws (Privacy Act, Notifiable Data Breaches scheme)
  • We know the Essential Eight framework (Australian Signals Directorate)
  • We're in your timezone for urgent questions
  • We can come on-site if needed (Sydney region)

Don't Wait for the 30-Day Microsoft 365 Countdown to Start

Every day that passes:

  • Another day of potential access risk
  • Another day closer to automatic data deletion
  • Another day of uncertainty

In 24 hours, you can know exactly what they had access to—and have a plan to lock it down.