More secure than a hard drive shredder
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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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