A large portion of business is conducted digitally nowadays, which means large amounts of data are stored on IT assets like computers, tablets, phones, desktops, laptops, and data centers. In a digital era, many companies invest in cloud storage to ensure their data is not lost, but accidents happen, and data security is becoming more…
A single enterprise houses exponential amounts of data across every piece of IT equipment in use. The majority of business today is conducted digitally, and many companies use data centers for digital storage, which means enterprise data is more vulnerable to online data theft. One way to prevent data breaches is through responsible IT asset…
As a new industry standard in the business world, ESG reporting encompasses a range of policies on how a company reacts to environmental, social, and governance issues. ESG reporting is becoming more common for businesses to provide more transparency and accountability regarding the environment as well as their stakeholders. Environmental and social criteria cover how…
Digital currency has become widely popular in the last decade, especially in recent years for its convenience and lack of government regulation. During the pandemic, a large portion of society turned to cash apps such as Venmo, Paypal or Zelle in order to pay for food, groceries, and other necessities, and crypto currency became more…
Data security is a top priority for many businesses, especially in the tech industry, but what most people are unaware of is that data remains on a device until it is completely erased. Proper data sanitization is a critical step in keeping personal information safe, and Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI) is going above and…
In 2016, banking giant Morgan Stanley Smith Barney undertook IT asset decommissioning and refresh projects and hired a moving company with no data destruction experience to decommission several U.S. data centers. As a result, devices containing unencrypted customer data were sold online. A few years later, during an IT refresh project, the company lost track…