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Security Limitations of SSDs

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Offering blazing speed and enhanced durability, solid state drives (SSDs) are easily becoming the preferred storage device in the enterprise. However, most organizations are unaware of the hidden data security challenges for this storage medium and ‘what’ data destruction methods are approved.

Download our research study to understand the security limitations of SSDs, and gain insights on best practices to prevent your data from being accessed and breached.

Key findings from the study include:

• SSDs contain a myriad of sensitive personal and business information. 47 percent of organizations store both personal and business data on SSDs.
• Unrestricted access, limited visibility and uncertainty of data loss/theft top the list of SSD security challenges. 14 percent admitted to being unaware of where and when data loss/theft could occur.
• Organizations prefer to outsource the task of handling and erasing SSDs that hit end-of-life. 56 percent of organizations either send their SSDs to IT asset disposition vendors/recyclers to erase the data or outsource the task to an IT security consultant.