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Asset disposal
Steve Mellings, Founder, ADISA, discusses the unseen information security risk.
Information assurance is an essential discipline for the enterprise and with increasingly complex and sophisticated threats it is an area of grave concern and consideration. Most companies now allocate significant spend and resource to network security to ensure that their data is protected from those proactively seeking access to it or from accidental disclosure via a breach. This diligence is largely as a result of pressure from
governmental and industry regulators and a voracious appetite in the press to highlight embarrassing deficiencies in corporate processes. So it is surprising when we consider that despite spending millions of pounds per year on network security, most companies do not view asset disposal with the same level of importance - despite those assets holding the very same data so vigorously protected when on the network.
“ Where does your data go?
downstream processing and management”. The logical line of questioning required to manage asset disposal is: • What is the category of your data? • Who is handling your data carrying asset? • What type of asset was your data on? • What are they doing to it?
Asset Disposal is defined as: “Any situation or circumstance where an IT asset leaves the direct control (whether temporary or permanent) of the asset owner or data controller and becomes under the direct control of a third party for
There are WEEKLY stories of data being found on 2nd user equipment, found in landfill and worst of all in the electrical markets in Africa
happens to the drives? How many companies refresh their mobile phone estate without really knowing what happens to the data on the phone? Do they even
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Within each of these illustrated outlets the question of control over the physical asset which holds data is critical. How many companies return early life or field replaced DOA equipment to their reseller or manufacturer for repair / replacement without knowing what
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