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A former Gizmodo writer changed his name to ‘Slackbot’ and stayed undetected for months
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Our enterprise has all of that automated, who's searching for names manually in any business of nontrivial size....?
This can, and should, be scripted.
Exactly, most services can be tied into a central authentication system/SSO and can automatically be disabled upon disabling an SSO user.