The Importance of Secure IT Asset Disposal

After your computer/laptop breaks down, what do you do with it? Do you retire it to your IT Department?  Do you send it to the IT cemetery in the sky?  Before taking any step for retirement of your IT equipment, you must consider all of your old files, data, and pertinent client information.

The problem lies in understanding the risk of any IT asset that could be reused or resold.  Many security professionals are involved in asset management and theft prevention…not in the proper, certified process of destruction of IT equipment.

In most instances, companies throw the equipment away…or so they think.  Employee theft tops the list of risks associated with IT asset disposal.  They may not be targeting the data, but taking the equipment, while data is still on it because it hasn’t been cleaned properly or effectively, prior to discarding same, is a major breach of data security.  Organizations spend millions in protecting data from hackers, but just one computer carries a liability risk amounting to millions of dollars.  Every IT department should have a policy to destroy data before IT assets are moved or potentially destroyed.

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Datacenters are a cybersecurity target

I’m a recovering intelligence officer. I’m always a recovering intelligence officer for one trauma or another. And I’ve had the benefit, the pleasure, the honor to apply a lot of those skills I use in defense of our nation in the commercial section and in the commercial world as well, rising all the way to chief operating officer of a company that I thought was pretty obscure.

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Loss of data hurts everyone

Whether I’m a nation state targeting data, whether I’m a criminal enterprise targeting data, or a transnational organization targeting that, that data is valuable. And while it’s valuable to me, there is a negative externality to the people that I’m taking it from as well. It’s not a victimless crime, right?

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Datacenters are the obvious target

Anybody ever watch storage wars?
You can go on the dark web and buy drives like you were buying a storage unit. “I’ll give you a thousand dollars for that storage unit”. I know there’s got to be a couple thousand bucks worth of stuff in it. Your data out there is the same way.

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