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Morgan Stanley reached a very expensive settlement from leaking data

Six Years Later, Data Breach Continues to Cost Morgan Stanley

January 27, 2022 Anna Callahan Uncategorized

Improper information technology asset disposition costs financial services provider tens of millions Sixty million dollars. That’s how much Morgan Stanley, a global leader in financial services, agreed to pay to clients in January 2022 in a class action lawsuit for[…]

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Garner’s 2021 Year in Review

December 8, 2021 Anna Callahan Uncategorized

2021 was a successful year for Garner. We are grateful to our employees, customers, and business partners for believing in our mission of preventing data breaches through proper IT asset disposition. In 2021 Garner saw continued demand for our data[…]

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DriveSavers Recovers Data from the Most Hopeless Circumstances

October 19, 2021 Anna Callahan Uncategorized

Think the data is gone? Think again. A data recovery story: “A Powerbook was trapped for two days in a sunken cruise ship at the bottom of the Amazon River. The owner grabbed their scuba gear and dove down to[…]

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Header image of one successful CISO and one unsuccessful CISO because of how they handle decommissioning hard drives

A Tale of Two CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers)

August 16, 2021 Anna Callahan Uncategorized

(A story about two different CISO data security plans with real-world application of decommissioning hard drives and the threat of ransomware) CISO Andrew Data Security Plan: Focused on Ransomware When Andrew, in California, was appointed Chief Information Security Officer of[…]

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Why is degaussing the best data destruction for HIPAA Compliance?

June 9, 2021 Anna Callahan Uncategorized

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[…]

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some people use an ax to try to destroy a hard drive

Data Destruction vs Hard Drive Destruction

May 26, 2021 Anna Callahan Uncategorized

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[…]

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How to Destroy Hard Drives: NSA Data Sanitization

May 11, 2021 Anna Callahan Uncategorized

Nothing lasts forever, and this includes data storage devices. When it comes to end-of-life hard drive data sanitization and destroying hard drives, you have options. In order to sanitize a magnetic hard drive of all data to NSA Data Sanitization standards, you[…]

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Never Trust. Always Verify

April 21, 2021 Michael Harstrick Uncategorized

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[…]

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The Critical Data Security and Data Privacy Risk

April 2, 2021 Michael Harstrick Uncategorized

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[…]

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Garner Recognizes: Keith Skinner, Varese-secure Ltd.

March 23, 2021 Michael Harstrick Uncategorized

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[…]

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  • Six Years Later, Data Breach Continues to Cost Morgan Stanley
  • Garner’s 2021 Year in Review
  • DriveSavers Recovers Data from the Most Hopeless Circumstances
  • A Tale of Two CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers)
  • Why is degaussing the best data destruction for HIPAA Compliance?

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