Take steps to avoid a Catastrophic Data Breach

Businesses rely on technology and the lightning-fast exchange of data we’ve come to depend on. The data received is often saved to local hard drives and memory cards in the computer equipment we use each day. And while responsible organizations take measures to safeguard against a threat by leveraging security software and firewalls, they often leave themselves vulnerable to a catastrophic data breach when retiring IT assets.

Did you know deleting and reformatting a hard drive does not permanently erase data? If you answered no, you’re not alone. What’s even more surprising to some, is that sensitive data is not only saved to a hard drive on your laptop or desktop, it is also stored on the hard drives and memory cards inside IT assets such as mobile phones, printers, scanners, servers, and medical monitoring devices even after they have been erased and reformatted. In this way, businesses of all sizes have unknowingly exposed themselves, their staff and their clients to data breaches, which have included personal information such as medical results, social security and credit card numbers, all of which are recoverable long after a computer has been retired.

The good news is, you can take steps to permanently avoid a catastrophic data breach by permanently eliminating the data on all hard drives and other media prior to liquidating IT assets, disposing of or recycling e-waste.

Pupfish Sustainability Solutions offers permanent data destruction solutions to businesses on Long Island and beyond.  All hard drive sanitization, degaussing or hard drive destruction services are performed at our facility located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park and are never sent to a third party.

Click here to request additional information about data destruction methods using hard drive sanitization and hard drive destruction or call Pupfish at 631.403.1100 today.