Act now for GDPR compliance
Businesses that are ill-prepared for the GDPR and who fail to comply face fines up to 4% of annual global revenue!
Time has run out for businesses ill-prepared for the May 2018 introduction of the EU’s GDPR. Those who fail to comply face fines up to 4% of annual global revenue or €20 million — whichever is greater!
Industry Differentiators
There are companies that provide segments of TechR2’s services, but we are confident that no other company provides the comprehensive, A-to-Z, full compliance media security / data / information eradication solution that TechR2 provides. TechR2’s patented method serves to address what is otherwise (we believe) a flawed process for media retention throughout our industry.
Efficient Tear-A-Byte® Method Saves Money
All processes in a data center and within the enterprise have direct and indirect costs. Managers know what the direct costs are because they are budgeted and invoiced regularly. The indirect expenses spring up when a process is not completed correctly. Most business professionals know that it is rare for everything in a project to be executed without any issues. At TechR2, we encounter this issue with many clients – so we’ve become experts in solving problems and more importantly, solving problems while staying within budget.
TechBox™ for Enterprise
The TechR2 TechBox™ is a lockable, efficient, and cost effective solution for your IT asset disposal needs. The flat rate cost includes shipping, processing of IT assets, a detailed audit report and Certificate of Destruction. We follow the ISO 14001 Environmental Health and Safety Systems. We honor a zero landfill policy and take pride in our role in honoring the environment.
International Certifications: TechR2 Client Reach Demands
Why does Columbus, Ohio based TechR2 have so many expensive, difficult to earn, difficult to maintain, globally respected certifications?
Why are standards critical to controlling data eradication processes?
Why should e-waste not use destruction technologies meant for paper?
The 2-Person Security Rule Should Be Common Sense
In a data center, there are two types of systems, those that are working and can be managed by the storage manager software written by companies like IBM and EMC. Then there are the systems that are being decommissioned or containing data bearing devices that no longer function.
Data Destruction Myths
An IT Manager was heard to say recently “the hard drive is inoperable so let’s just send it to offsite recycling”. Another data center manager chimes in and adds, they “beat their units up with hammers and send them to the recycler”. An R2 recycling manager smiled and said “the last time I was at the recycler’s facility, I saw many people picking through the piles of e-waste and selecting all of the units that were not destroyed and purchasing them for a miniscule amount of cash.
Data breaches from lost or stolen media are the #1 source of large-scale data compromises.
Data breaches from lost or stolen media are the #1 source of large-scale data compromises.
- The #1 cause of large-scale data breaches is loss of data-bearing media (disk, tape, USB drives, CD/DVD) during transport or from data centers.
- Many organizations lack adequate controls to track, secure and destroy data-bearing devices.
- Compliance with new Federal Standard for Data Destruction NIST 800-88 requires companies to review and upgrade their information security practices.
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It is highly probable that your hard drives will be, at some point, obtained by unauthorized individuals. What are you doing to protect the intellectual property and data that is your responsibility?
SAFENOTES, August 2015
The shredding industry tells us they safely destroy data bearing devices at our workplaces and that our workers will be fine. We should reflect on the processes where circuit boards are manufactured and the protection employees receive on the factory line.