Help your clients develop a process for finding unknown and hidden data bearing devices and assets
Guardian Data Destruction
SECURE, COMPLIANT AND ABSOLUTE E-DATA DESTRUCTION
As I take the helm as CEO of Data Guardian Destruction, I'm on a listening tour: talking with you, our valued channel partners, to understand your needs.? Unsurprisingly, your feedback has highlighted the need for more educational materials for your own teams and to pass along to your customers.
Our latest blog about hidden data storage meets that need.
It's the first in a two-part series focusing on data bearing devices and assets. Much like an iceberg, many DBAs and DBDs are hidden below the surface, storing potentially millions of sensitive data points such as social security or credit card numbers. Without recognition and removal, these can be inadvertently released when your customers' IT assets are retired.
This article includes a comprehensive DBA and DBD list by IT hardware type. We have also provided a downloadable one-page guide that you can share internally or with your customers.
As always, the Guardian Team is here to support you and protect and grow your business. If your customers have concerns about unknown or unrecognized data storage risks, we can help.?
We value your partnership and your time!
Data bearing devices. Data bearing assets. What your customers don't know can hurt them.
Identifying data bearing devices (DBDs) and data bearing assets (DBAs) is crucial in the IT asset disposition process for several key reasons:
Common data storage includes hard disk drives, solid state drives and USB drives, but many other devices like network equipment, blade chassis, motherboards with embedded storage, and even office equipment like printers and docking stations also store private and confidential data.
Often, this data storage is either hidden or completely unknown, creating a significant data security risk.?
Guardian's latest educational blog, "Data bearing devices: What you need to know for absolute data destruction," tackles this challenge head-on. It provides a comprehensive list of DBDs and DBAs, including those you might not expect. It offers a downloadable reference guide perfect for your client stakeholders, including IT, security, legal, and finance, who need to understand data destruction risks and compliance requirements.
Awareness of common and hidden data storage is key to helping your clients develop programs that safeguard company data and ensure effective data management throughout the IT asset lifecycle.
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If you’re not physically examining each IT asset for undetected and concealed data bearing devices, you actually don’t know where your gap in data compliance is.
Or how much data you’re releasing offsite to potential bad actors.
As your trusted third party partner, Guardian provides this service to your clients by the job or as an ongoing, onsite process. Talk to us if your customers are at risk.
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Experienced Professional Manager
8 个月Always informative and educational articles