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Data security experts, you should talk with your IT asset manager about best practices for data security. IT asset disposition is often an area in which a company’s data security policy has some holes. When it can cost millions to recover from a single data breach, the risks are too high to ignore. Your company …

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company should be concerned about the risk of environmental non-compliance in the IT recycling process. The earth won’t be the only thing that suffers from an environmentally unsound IT recycling process. If your company doesn’t recycle its used electronics according to all environmental regulations and best practices, it risks: Paying fines. Paying the cost of …

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If your company has decided to consolidate data centers logically with virtualization technology, or consolidate them physically, one of the decisions you’re going to face is what to do with excess servers, storage and network equipment after the change. To help you work your way through the asset disposition planning and decisions, we’ve put together …

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One of the most important decisions you can make as you prepare to dispose of your company’s retired IT assets is what to do with the data stored on their hard drives and other storage media. If that data reaches the outside world, your company could have a costly and embarrassing remediation effort on its …

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What costs would your company face if your sensitive data or your customers’ sensitive data was to fall into the wrong hands? Risk managers take the threat of a data breach very seriously because the costs for remediating a breach can be astronomical. In some cases, a company may never fully recover from a data …

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The “DoD wipe,” the data destruction standard created by the Department of Defense was documented almost 20 years ago, in 1995. If your company’s data destruction policy is still based on this standard, it’s time to revisit your policy. You wouldn’t build your company’s IT infrastructure around 18 year-old technology, so why would you build …

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Companies migrate their data to the cloud for many reasons: increased flexibility, lower costs, greater energy efficiency, and easier management with access to a wider range of platforms than would be available with an on-site data center. But, as with any major transition in the business world, to ensure the changeover is completed as seamlessly …

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Disposing of a company’s IT assets can be a big challenge partly because of the sometimes overlooked risks associated with it. The retired assets, for one, may go through a number of people, and even locations, before reaching the final disposition point. There are several steps in the process to investigate, and several hurdles to …

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When a company moves data and applications to new IT systems or a cloud-based service, the retired assets must be disposed of. IT asset disposition can fall under the broader term of electronics recycling. Items to be recycled may contain sensitive data that must be permanently destroyed in a way that avoids security breaches. Asset …

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Enterprises are taking advantage of the mobility, ease of use, and the applications offered by tablets. For many workers, tablets are replacing PCs or specialized devices as their mobile work device. IT Asset Managers and Data Security Managers have been focused on keeping track of these devices while in use, and ensuring they can only …

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