Degaussing 101

Imagine holding a letter in your hands that says that a hard drive containing your private, protected health information has gone missing. INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center, Inc., sent such a letter in September 2020.  On October 17, 2019 they learned[…]

To destroy means “to ruin the structure or the condition of.” Picture an ax-wielding man on a wild rampage smashing guitars. The guitars have been broken up into pieces but are still recognizable. Destroy also means to “put out of[…]

The New Zero Trust Reality Nothing. Nil. Zero. That’s how much trust you should have in your users, devices, and network when it comes to today’s increasingly dispersed and complex data environment, according to the National Security Agency (NSA). While[…]

Hiding in Your Old Fax Machine “Many of us get medication at a pharmacy. Recently, I watched as the clerk filled my prescription, which comes in duplicate out of the fax machine. Following data privacy protocol, she very carefully put[…]

An unexpected data explosion occurred in March 2020 when millions of workers suddenly left the security of their offices to work from home. The need for IT professionals to keep track of millions of now remote hard drives and devices[…]

Wiping standards have been debunked by the DoD. It’s been replaced by modern standards like the NSA/CSS policy manual 9-12 storage device sanitization and destruction manual. But like the urban legend of the alligators in the New York sewer system,[…]

Following best practices for media destruction would have prevented compromises to data security faced by Morgan Stanley. What do Morgan Stanley, hospitals, and healthcare organizations across the U.S. and the  Kanagawa Prefectural Government of Japan have in common? They all recently[…]