Click here to view Part 4. While there are many reliable vendors for IT asset disposition it’s important to ensure you’re covering all of your bases. Certificates and standards can hold as a great way to narrow down key players but asset tracking, secure transport and environmentally responsible disposition should be greatly considered as well.…
Click here to view Part 3. Purging and shredding of hard drives is a popular solution for data destruction especially if your hard drive, stores highly-sensitive information, is unusable, was manufactured before 2007, or if you simply have no desire to reuse or resell your equipment. Purging represents the degaussing of media which is a…
Click here to view Part 2. Varying specifications of hard drives can be the first step in assessing whether the device can be reused or should be processed for end-of-life recycling. When preparing a hard drive for reuse you can wipe the hard drive to protect your company and ensure data removal. Data wiping consists…
Click here to view Part 1. The two most common types of laptop and desktop storage devices are hard disk drives (HDD) and solid-state drives (SSD). A hard disk drive pairs the platters with magnetic heads arranged on a moving actuator arm, which reads and writes data to the platter sources. Hard disk drives retain…
As an IT manager are you confident your company is protected from a data breach? How can you be certain? In a recent survey, 83 percent of IT decision makers were either fairly or very confident they were protected. 15 percent on the other hand did not feel confident and 2 percent did not know.…