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Hard Drive Destruction & Data Destruction Services
“Overkill” is Just Enough Organizations have an ethical (and sometimes legal) obligation to their clients to protect sensitive information. Disposing of computer hard drives that haven’t been properly...
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Evaluating Options When Replacing Hard Drives and Backup Tape
In our last blog we wrote about the unfortunate situation where 437 backup tapes meant for sanitization and eventual resale were “lost” enroute to the vendor. If this was protected information, this...
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Reviewing Data Retention Policy and Procedures
Not very many people smile when you mention data retention standards or policies and procedures. Lawyers smile because of the lack thereof, and records managers smile because, well, it’s what they do...
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NAID AAA Certification: Is it Really Important?
The National Association for Information Destruction is the authority for best practices and legal reasonability standards when it comes to document management, paper shredding, hard drive destruction,...
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Hardware Recycling Lacking in Most Businesses
According to IT market analysis firm International Data Corporation (IDC), many U.S. businesses are not properly implementing best practices in the recycling of their hardware. “The IT hardware...
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Study: Recycling Electronics Important to Most People
Hard drive destruction is our business (well, part of it anyway). It’s important for many reasons, not the least of which is avoiding legal problems if sensitive electronic data gets in the wrong...
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How to Prevent Identity Theft
If you stop to think about it, we share sensitive personal information with people all the time. Whether it’s buying something online, checking in at the doctor’s office, or writing a check at a store,...
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Colorado Company Execs Convicted of Improper Electronics Recycling
If you’re looking to upgrade your computer and want to recycle your old one, you’re getting rid of something with just as much potential for a security breach as if you were throwing away credit card...
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Microsoft Sues Arizona Electronics Recycler
In our last post, we discussed the disturbing news of executives at a Colorado company being convicted of deceptive electronics recycling. In reality, it was more disposal than recycling, as they...
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