Recently I changed my password and other people in my team have done the same thing, however; when we did so we were not able to access any application that's associated with the cloud that includes email and teams. I was told by the cloud support team that this is called a smart lockout feature and there is no way for an administrator to unlock them and in doing so the system kept me locked out of every Cloud app for over 8 hours I can do nothing but sit in my cube and twiddle my thumbs.
I was talking to other people in the office and they say this is a cloud technology being used by cyber security in collaboration with HR to purposely railroad workers to force them out of the company for not being able to work it's a technology they have the ability to turn off but they do not want to.
Does anyone know how cyber security is collaborating with human resources to use this Cloud technology called smart lockout to make people look like they're not working because they can't access anything? Is this technology being used to fire people?