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Data Security during IT Data Disposal by Richard Conard
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Computers
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You must have heard or read countless in the news and realized that the issue of data security is a hot topic in society today. Whether it is individual or corporate matters, there is now a growing need especially for organizations to tighten up on their policies and it continues to become a particularly pressing issue. In the course of the past few years, there have been many cases of information security breaches and governments have been clamping down heavily on breaches of sensitive data, resulting in some significant fines being levied against offenders; this informs the importance of proper IT asset disposition Chicago.
In light of these developments, the relevant government bodies have issued guidance that organizations should have a policy in place for proper IT asset disposal Chicago. The wording states that organizations should be careful that they don't overlook asset disposal – if you use a contractor to do hard drive destruction and dispose of or recycle your IT equipment, make sure they do it adequately. You may be held responsible if personal data gathered by you is extracted from your old IT equipment when it is resold.
One area of the public sector that has to cope with the aforementioned adverse publicity lately has been the health service providers. There have been a number of examples where personal data collected from patients found its way to cyber criminals. This was a consequence of poor or the complete lack of hard drive destruction so that sensitive data on hard drives was not securely destroyed, with hard drives containing this information being sold to the general public on an internet auction site.
It's a difficult time for IT directors in companies, with average predicted IT spending cuts of 10% in of their profits, rising each year after until. Against this background, it is vital that companies put into place firm IT asset disposition Chicago policies which will help them avoid significant heavy fines that they can scarcely afford to pay. Stringent policies are mostly already in place for how companies handle sensitive data while their IT equipment is in use, and applying the same strict procedures to data when doing IT asset disposal Chicago should be common practice.
Where organizations lack the expertise to destroy data in-house for E-waste IT asset recycling Chicago - with reducing IT budgets this will likely become the norm – it is crucial they seek to employ the services of a trusted third party. Often these companies will be able to perform hard drive destruction services onsite, thus eliminating any concerns over what happens when old hard drives leave their premises. These companies should also provide full certification of the process with details of hard drives destroyed by serial number.
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