SAFENOTES, August 2015

Due to the increased number of data breaches over the past few years, TechR2’s process for recycling e-waste has evolved. Data Security and Risk Mitigation is our primary focus to reduce the risk of brand compromise within your organization. According to the Ponemon Institute, 2015 Cost of a Data Breach Study, the average cost of a data breach is $3.79 million dollars this is a 23% increase in the total cost since 2013.

TechR2 specializes in Onsite Data Destruction and Technology Asset Retirement solutions. We are certified in five different international Standards of Management Systems designed to best serve the needs of our customers by providing secure data destruction and responsible recycling solutions. We are also proud to be a part of the WBE enterprise. We take pride in our data security best practices and our role in honoring the environment.

• ISO 27001 Risk Assessments to help managers understand where they are in processing end of life data bearing devices. These risk assessments are given to supervisors for their benefit and to meet regulatory requirements for regular reviews.
• Return on Investment (RIO) calculators to give our customers the financial tools to plan and budget for data destruction. Our calculators are written in VBA in Microsoft Office Word to easily adapt to an organization’s reporting scheme.
• Passive RFID System with TAB Appliance is a system that tracks the data-bearing device from the beginning to the end of life. The system incorporates reliable RFID tags, readers and door portals to give you the ability to track your physical data bearing devices like the big companies.
• User Interfaces such as the Customer Portal and Scan2go kiosk allow customers to easily scan devices into secure containment and give managers the reports to do their work efficiently.
• Mobile hard drive wiping station for loose drives is a NEW tool for the Tear-A-Byte® process that allows the company to pull hard drives from a desktop or laptop and the device is wiped in the station using the DoD compliant 3 pass overwrite and verify software.
• Mobile degaussing station for magnetic hard drives is used in our Tear-A-Byte® process to permanently destroy the data on magnetic hard disk drives. Our devices are NSA approved.
• Techniques for wiping IBM Storage servers and other storage complexes are another NEW addition to our battery of products and services. Our trained technicians will wipe these large units onsite and we will certify and make ready for service for their next job.
• TechBOX containers for safe shipping those digital units that you have sitting around the office to our facility for safe and environmentally sound processing. TechR2has ISO 14001 recycling, remarketing and charitable services so you can direct the final destination of your equipment.
• Onsite Training is available for all companies using the Tear-A-Byte® process. Contact our Client Relations team to schedule the training session and even better yet, get your team certified so your group is working efficiently and you have the training documentation available for your next audit.

While the above shows an exciting list that we are proud of accomplishing, we continue to lead the Data Destruction industry in technological development. All the while, we are meeting the ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001 certifications.

But the most common comments we are happy to hear is “you have exceeded our expectations”, “job well done” and “we will utilize your services again”.

Reputation risk is one of the high risk concerns among business executives globally, because reputation accounts for a significant portion of a company’s market value and affects its future viability.

Incidents that damage reputation, such as data breaches and lost or stolen records can result in greater financial loss than the original event.

The past couple years have brought major aspects of awareness to the table with emerging risks, either from data security or technological alterations. Meanwhile, regulators are forcing industries to take more responsibility for risk management.

Risk management is mostly about handling uncertainty.

Data-at-rest means data-at-RISK. Hence, IT managers must:
a) have a specific plan for their IT assets
b) must be aware of the root cause of adverse outcomes and
c) manage and prevent anything that might affect the organization’s reputation.

We can help. Contact us today to learn about our TAB solution and how we can help you improve your data security while mitigating your risk of a data breach.