The idea of data security has taken center stage lately. This is due to the number of security breaches in various companies online. There are thousands of attempts every day to break into systems that were once thought to be secure. Financial security is threatened too along with this. This is of special concern to banking […]

Today, there are many reasons a company may want a hard drive or other data containment device destroyed, and even more ways to go about the task. In this article, we will look at three common data destruction methods i.e. degaussing, crushing, and erasing. A company may require data and media destruction services for a

Data security is becoming increasingly important as both an issue of business control and of civil liberties. Customers want to know that their data is protected. Citizens want security that their sensitive data is not provided to the government or inappropriate businesses without their knowledge. For this reason, companies that hold data on their servers

Sure your bank, attorneys, and credit card company should destroy any computer hardware such as hard drives or removable media of any kind, like flash drives and compact discs. However, all that information, your emails, your credit card information, personal information, is still on YOUR computers. Even though your major contractors are properly destroying any

When a business throws away a computer, or even a hard drive, they’re essentially donating whatever information is on the hard drive to anyone who is interested. Whether it’s legal or not, the trash is available for anyone to take. This quickly makes data security an important consideration, because there is usually much more information

Federal legal standards for the disposal of protected health information (PHI) on digital media require that patient information and vital identity information be completely erased and rendered unrecoverable before hard disks on which the data are saved can be re-used, transferred or sold. The hard drive eraser refers to the technology that makes complete unrecoverable removal of disk stored

Cloud computing has entered the cross-hairs of experts longing for data security. A seemingly continuous stream of data breaches all link back to cloud computing, validating the concerns. But according to the Harvard Business Review, it may be time to look beyond cloud computing for the real threat to data security: collaboration. A culture of collaboration is

Hackers and their growing potential power over your data are the talk of the town in early 2015. After the infamous Sony and celebrity hacks last year, not to mention the declaration of war against jihadists by the international hacker network Anonymous, hackers seem to be gaining political and corporate power rapidly. But data security is

If data is a company’s lifeblood, the number of predators waiting to feed on that data is staggering. Hundreds of millions of records have been verified as lost to data breaches, according to privacyrights.org, based on voluntary disclosure information. The actual number may well be into the billions. While estimates vary, it is difficult to

An Information Governance Policy, often called Records Retention, is a critical aspect of your business. Yet, you ignore it at your own peril. The intensity of the game ramped up with 2006 amendments to the FRCP governing Electronically Stored Information (ESI.) Without a good retention and media destruction policy, in a lawsuit, you could be forced to

Have you ever thought of how you’ll deal with the end of your computer’s life cycle? Surely you know that you can’t just throw the computer out. It isn’t legal and, in terms of data security, it isn’t safe. Here are five reasons to consider getting a hard drive crusher from Phiston Technologies. 1. Our products can

Recently, in a post published at bobsguide, IT expert and Imprima Torgny Gunnarsson stated that Online Trust reported that 740 million online records containing sensitive data were exposed in 2013. In the same year, Adobe lost user information for 33 million customers because of hacking. 40 million Target shoppers had their credit card details accessed by

Statistics show that data security is a number one priority for small and large businesses alike. This means that along with ensuring current data is safe, you also need to develop a plan for safe destruction of old or unused devices. This task can get a bit confusing. Your destruction plan must follow the guidelines of

A business should place a lot of chips in data security as a data or security breach can be quite the hassle to deal with, not to mention expensive depending on the particular case. In order to avoid a situation like this, your business should focus on data security, and after doing this on a consistent

You already know why it’s important to protect the data on your blu ray disc. What you want to know now is how to destroy it. You have a few options when it comes to the destruction of a blu ray disc. You can destroy it the hard way or you can destroy it the easy way. The easy