Managing data across its lifecycle is no small feat. From creation, to storage, to destruction, to recovery, retention and everything in between, data management is about keeping your company’s information secure at every point in its lifecycle. Read these blogs to learn about data management best practices, including practical tips on how you can improve data management practices across your entire organization.
On March 6, 2020, the U.S. Department of Defense implemented new rules for how unclassified information is handled. Let’s look at how federal agencies and others can successfully satisfy these DoD CUI requirements for data destruction—all while minimizing manual work and honoring data retention requirements. … Read More
IT teams need to guard their infrastructure from outside attack, but they must also look at software and hardware that come from third-party suppliers and vendor partners—even trusted ones. This is particularly true for portable storage devices such as USBs and external or removable drives. Here’s how secure data erasure can help. … Read More
Following the loss of 18 hard drives destined for scrap, one local government revised its IT asset disposal procedures to protect against future data leaks. In doing so, they overcame several drawbacks to relying only on physical destruction methods to achieve data sanitization. … Read More
The World Economic Forum predicts the amount of e-waste will more than double by 2050 to 120 million metric tons annually. Organizations that put in place environmentally friendly IT disposal practices now can greatly affect whether e-waste helps or harms the environment—and whether or not they will reap the business benefits. … Read More
If data protection is so critical, what keeps enterprises from completely removing data from drives and devices when it’s no longer needed? In this post, the second in a two-part series, we address five more data sanitization myths common to large and small enterprises alike. These include beliefs about erasing advanced SSDs, T2 Macs, sanitization in live environments, server downtime, and the cost of data sanitization. Even if you think … Read More
