Investing in top-notch data security is very important to the future operation of any business, large or small. Established businesses and small startups should have plans for securing data and properly destroying devices holding sensitive and confidential information. A data security failure can very well lead to a complete destruction of a business. An illuminating example […]

In today’s world, data security is a critical part of every business. But, when people think about data security what comes to mind first is the integrity of data on active servers: someone hacking into a website and stealing data from an on-line source. Equally important though, is what happens to the hard drive data

Regardless of the size of your business, there will come a time when sensitive data on computer hard drives will need destroying. Taking on the task destroying a hard drive is an often dangerous as well as time-consuming task. If you’re needing to destroy a hard drive, chances are you are wanting to ensure that the

Scan the pages of online auction sites. Within them you will find second-hand disk drives for sale, many still containing personal information. Just in February of this year, the Indiana State Medical Association had two backup hard disk drives stolen while being transported to an off-site storage location. This resulted in more than 39,000 patients

Many people think that throwing away their old media and computers is enough to protect their data from being confiscated and used by third parties. But a hard disk eraser and other data destruction methods are really the only sure way to do it. Hard disk drive technology A hard disk drive соntаіns а number оf concentric

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