Most organisations are fastidious about protecting networks and data. When electronic files are no longer of use to your day-to-day business, the same care you took to preserve the information must be taken to dispose of it.
In 2009, a computer forensics firm completed a six-month survey investigating what sort of information could be retrieved from second-hand hard drives. 40% of these drives contained personal and corporate confidential information. This included corporate financial data, DNS server information, personal identification details, and even a company’s ‘secret’ recipe.
In the wrong hands, this kind of information could result in:
It could also put you in breach of the Data Protection Act.
Your company’s sensitive and confidential data stays with you until it is completely destroyed. There is no need to transport media devices away from your organisation or for the devices to be handled by third-parties.