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Year: 2018

HIPAA ALERT: HHS Issued Guidelines on e-Device Disposal

The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently issued guidance on how to properly dispose of electronic devices to prevent data breaches. Healthcare organizations are prime targets for data breaches. Often times, detailed security plans are put in place to protect networks from online vulnerabilities, but they fail to cover offline equipment with […]
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Industry Wide e-Plastics Crisis

Plastics from recycled electronics have always been a difficult material to manage. With low oil prices and environmental challenges concerning flame retardants, domestic companies often choose to make new products from virgin resins instead of recycled plastics. This means most of the companies who specialize in the recovery and manufacturing of “e-plastics” overseas and leaves minimal domestic […]
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5 Tips to Help You Effectively Dispose of Your End of Life Data Assets

Modern business owners certainly understand the importance of cyber security and the potential harm from data breaches. While attacks on mega-corporations make headlines, there are also tons of small and midsize business hacks that nobody hears about. The problem is that most businesses focus on keeping data safe for the purposes of storage or sharing, […]
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How Recycling IT Equipment Could Lead to a Security Breach

As fast as technology advances these days, companies often find themselves struggling to keep up. A solid strategy involves choosing the right hardware and software solutions that are going to last for years to come with appropriate integration and updates, and even seeking custom solutions. However, you are going to reach a point where you […]
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Risk Mitigation for Data Asset Destruction

There are known risks to storing data in digital formats. If your firewall isn’t robust, your password protections are weak, you’ve decided to forego encryption, and so on, you place yourself at risk of data breach, identity theft, and damage to your customers and your company. What you might not realize is all the risks […]
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What is the Future of Data Security?

More and more, our lives are becoming intertwined with data. Where we once had to call or stop by the bank to confirm balances, we can now check online statements on mobile devices and swipe smartphones at POS terminals to pay for goods. In truth, we don’t have to enter stores to make purchases anymore […]
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5 Important Steps to Take after a Data Leak

Data breaches are a major headache for businesses and consumers alike. Consumers are naturally impacted by issues like stolen personal data and identity theft. As a business owner, you have an ethical and legal obligation to protect consumer privacy and safeguard the confidential information your customers provide you with. Even with measures in place to […]
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Using a Hard Drive Shredder: 4 Common Mistakes to Avoid

The migration to digital data is still underway, but by now, most businesses prefer the convenience and space-saving benefits of storing data on hard drives rather than keeping filing cabinets and storage warehouses full of paper records. The caveat, of course, is that business owners have to take steps to keep digital data safe. In […]
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5 Ways to Destroy a Hard Drive

The fear with modern social media is that even when you delete posts, they still remain somewhere, floating in the cloud until they come back to haunt you. Similar fears need not plague you when it comes to business data. If you destroy data properly, you can make sure its gone for good, and this […]
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