Patent ID: 8782770

Claim:
A method for managing security during divestiture of assets and employees by a divesting entity, comprising: differentiating divested assets of which ownership is transferred from the divesting entity to a buying entity during divestiture and divested employees whose employment is transferred from the divesting entity to the buying entity during divestiture from non-divested assets and employees, wherein differentiating the divested employees further comprises grouping divested employees into an active directory group of divested employees on a human resources database of the divesting entity; identifying non-divested assets which divested employees are permitted to access; locking down divested employee access to the non-divested assets which divested employees are not permitted to access, wherein locking down divested employee access to the non-divested assets further comprises deploying a divestiture proxy server between divested employees and non-divested assets; and deploying a separation firewall between divested networks of which ownership is transferred to a buying entity during divestiture and non-divested networks and between buying entity networks and the non-divested networks.