When a cybersecurity incident occurs—whether it’s ransomware, credential compromise, or unauthorized access—the immediate focus is rightfully on containment, recovery, and restoring operations. Systems are isolated. Accounts are reset. Backups are restored. New...
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IT Asset Decommissioning: Why Data Control Matters Long After Devices Leave Service
Decommissioning IT assets isn’t just a matter of removing equipment from use. Every device your organization deploys—servers, laptops, storage media, mobile devices—has the potential to retain sensitive data long after it’s powered down. That’s what makes IT asset...
AI Is Accelerating Hardware Turnover — Is Your ITAD Program Keeping Up?
Artificial intelligence is changing how organizations think about technology investments. New workloads demand faster processors, more memory, specialized GPUs, and updated infrastructure. As a result, hardware refresh cycles are speeding up across industries. What...
While AI and Cybersecurity Get the Spotlight — Retired Devices Are Overlooked
Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and data privacy are dominating conversations right now. Boards are asking questions. Policies are being updated. Teams are investing in new tools and controls. Most of that focus is on what’s active — the systems in use today,...
You Can’t Secure What You Can’t See
Most cybersecurity conversations focus on what’s running today — active systems, current users, live alerts, and emerging threats. That’s where attention belongs when availability and uptime are on the line. But many security failures don’t start with what’s active....
Old Tech, New Threats: Security Priorities for 2026
As organizations plan their 2026 IT security priorities, the spotlight is on AI governance, zero trust adoption, identity security, and cloud protections. Yet one area continues to introduce avoidable risk year after year: Old, retired, unused, or poorly...
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We Did It Again: SEAM Passes All Certifications (Including Surprise Audit)
When you're handing over your servers, computers, hard drives, and sensitive data, how do you know you can trust the company you're giving them to? This is how. At...
Supporting the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Leaders with DSU’s CybHER Camp
At SEAM, we understand how critical cybersecurity is—not just in our industry, but across every sector that handles sensitive data. That’s why we’re proud to...
Annual Community Shred Event!
SEAM is proud to participate in the annual Crime Stoppers of the Sioux Empire Shred Event! This is a fantastic opportunity to securely dispose of unwanted...
SEAM ITAD Podcast: Shredding vs. Sanitization— What’s Best for Your Data-Containing Devices?
Join our Vice President/Compliance Engineer, Paul Baldwin, for the SEAM ITAD Podcast, your go-to resource for IT asset disposition. In this episode, we’re...