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One doesn’t have to look very far to see the damage that poor cybersecurity practices can do. Just look at the news. Recently, Yahoo disclosed that more than one billion of its user’s accounts were compromised due to a 2013 hacking incident. The information gained on these users included names, phone numbers, encrypted passwords, and […]

Not much bigger than a stick of gum, your solid-state data volumes can record immense amounts of data. Thumb drives, flash drives, and other variations of these storage devices are ubiquitous pieces of the technological landscape. They fit into pockets, dangle off keychains, and fill up the junk drawers of kitchens and dorm rooms everywhere.

Many businesses are in the process of creating disaster recovery plans for their organizations. They’re working with managed services providers to: Educate their staff on security best practices, Ensure every device logging into the business network is secure and you can wipe it remotely, and Move some or all of their business processes to the

Most business owners will agree that modern times call for desperate measures. Just a quick scan of cybersecurity news shows us just how vulnerable our data really is in the hands of organizations that aren’t taking the proper security measures. Some driven criminals have even figured out ways to hack very complex and expensively guarded

Advances in data recovery are great under the right circumstances, but they can be terrible if they’re used by the wrong people. When this happens, extremely sensitive private information can be used by identity thieves or blackmailers. Corporate information can find its way to the competition. Recovered e-mails can end up on national news. These

When you read articles about protecting your data, the advice tends to be pretty standard: keep your security protocols up to date, assign specific and limited roles to anyone who touches sensitive data, and encrypt your data wherever possible. However, much of this advice misses a crucial piece: for true data security, you have to

As a frequent reader of our website and blog, you may be familiar with our products that help businesses reliably destroy data on hard drives and Blu Rays. But what you may not know is the answer to a simple question: do you need a hard disk eraser for your home? The answer, as you

Nowadays, are businesses underestimating the importance of data security? That’s not to say companies are unaware that they should keep their information safe from threats. However, they may not take it as seriously as they should. Besides, with all the advanced security software available nowadays, many companies merely sit back and allow their technology to do

Technology is constantly changing and improving; your company may be at risk of sensitive data being leaked or stolen. To ensure the safety of your data you must destroy discarded media devices that are no longer useful to your business. Media destruction crushes your device to the point of no return. It is completely mangled.

What do you do when you want to get rid of old data? More likely than not, your answer will not be enough to actually destroy it. The classic movie Office Space has taught us the benefits of simply taking a baseball bat to a computer, but even doing that to a hard drive may

The news nearly constantly reports on data security incidents involving the personal data of thousands of people. These incidents can seriously erode public confidence in the data entrusted to businesses and government entities. Phiston Technologies is a leader in the fight to eliminate data hacking from discarded electronic media. Many data destruction techniques do not

Nothing stays buried, so they say, and the same is true of your sensitive information. Even a high-level reformat and overwriting is no guarantee of keeping your information secure. The storage volume you relied on to hold onto your data might have even failed. Since you can’t access the information, you might think it would

Information is a vital resource; it’s the currency in which businesses run. In today’s environment, computers store information. If you’re a company, then that means all of your material is sitting in one place, computer’s hard disk drive. This information can be anything from personnel files to the company’s account information. It is vital that

In the world of data security, there are many options for handling, and eventually, disposing properly of one’s sensitive information. At first glance, with so many options, making a decision may seem overwhelming, or inconsequential. After all, information deleted is as good as information destroyed, right? Wrong. Many hard disk erasers claim to delete information

When it comes to data storage, solid-state drive technology is among the oldest and traces its roots back to the early 1950s, PCMag reported. For decades, however, it remained on the fringes of data storage, occasionally finding a home in niche industrial companies or military installations, but generally did little but wait for the advances that would