You might see a lot of products available for fast and reliable data security. The information you keep on your storage media is crucial to the security of your company and also your clients. Hackers don’t always access your files via the internet, but often in very obvious, physical means. They will stop at nothing and stoop […]

We focus on keeping our business and homes clean, but how many of us really focus on our cyber hygiene? Much like our bodies, homes, and businesses, our cyber security needs routine maintenance to stay healthy. With the threat of more than 50 percent of United States businesses in line for a cyber attack, your

Techno-thrillers can teach you all about how to destroy the data on a hard drive. Unfortunately, most of the ways you’ll learn are unsafe, ineffective, or both. To get rid of truly sensitive data, you should use equipment that will safely reduce the drive to little fragments. Providing that equipment is what we do at

A recent Dateline series discussed the burden of e-waste in Ghana, but the threat this poses to your business makes this documentary relevant to your business. There are literally thousands of computers being dumped in Ghana each day. What’s worst is Ghana residents are using data recovery tools to pillage sensitive information off of the hard drive

You know how important your data is to your business. You educate your employees on how important it is to keep confidential information within your organization and implement security measures to safeguard your data and keep your systems secure. But the very thing that makes working with information necessary is what makes it most vulnerable:

Your digital data is there to work for you in so many ways, but can also work against you if not disposed of properly. When given the opportunity data thieves will prey on your personal or business data. In fact, data theft is a global threat. There’s no way of protecting your sensitive data without

A hard disk (HDD) is a non-removable disk that stores a large amount of sensitive information by storing software and data files on your PC. A HDD essentially holds your personal as well as business files. A hard disk is also known as an electro-mechanical data storage device with magnetic storage with retrieval capabilities. However,

Solid state drives (SSDs) are becoming increasingly popular as companies move away from traditional data storage technologies such as hard drives, because SSDs can hold large amounts of data easily and be rapidly accessed. Examples of SSDs include miniaturized electronic devices and data storage media that include USBs, PDAs, smart phones and circuit boards. Encryption

The new Data Breach Notification Laws came into effect in February 2018. Now you may be asking yourself, “Do these laws affect me?” They’d affect any business which either has a revenue of $3 million or over or deals with a client’s TFN. Kamino recently surveyed advisers, accountants, and superannuation funds, and asked them specifically

According to the 2018 IBM funded Ponemon Institute’s Cost of a Data Breach study, it takes an average of 196 days for companies to detect a data breach. Research shows that the average cost of a data breach for American companies is an estimated $7.91 million. Data security is a very important priority for business,

Each year, millions of computers are retired. Sometimes their components, such as memory cards, power supplies, and other bits and pieces like fans and cases are recycled by intrepid IT workers. But a lot of the time, the units are disposed of whole, making their ways into some of the least secure environments on the

When it comes to data security, there are a significant number of approaches that you should take in order to ensure nobody steal that information due to lackluster security measures. As far as sensible security measures are concerned, one basic thing to make sure to check and double-check is the security and complexity of the

ITAMs or IT Asset Managers bear a great responsibility—planning for the proper disposal of any devices that contain or may contain sensitive or protected information. For many years, simply erasing hard drives and deleting files was sufficient. That is why companies like SpaceX trust our processes. More recently, however, data leaks have come from improperly

Computers have come a long way since the mid-20th century. Back then, data tapes recorded miles worth of information on reels of magnetic tape. The inception of the hard disk meant that you could record immense amounts of data on a very durable and reusable media, the metal hard disk. It can keep the data

It’s easy to forget about old hard drives. Once your employees circulate them from usage or replace an old computer with something faster, they can seem like they just disappear from sight. But usually, they aren’t gone. They’re stored away in a closet or file room.  Whether you’re reorganizing for 2019 or a story about