As technology integrates into every aspect of business practices, digital information protection becomes of the utmost importance. Businesses must protect against phishing, scamming and skimming, but who would think to protect against the disposal of old IT assets that are supposedly already sanitized? Given the progressively shorter lifespan of these assets, coupled with larger storage capacities, IT assets tend to hold confidential business data beyond the end of their useful life.
To define our terms, IT assets include, but are not limited to, standard computing devices such as desktop systems and notebooks, flash media, and non-traditional devices such as cell phones, smartphones and cameras. When a business' IT asset nears the end of its useful life, the device needs to be sanitized to make sure the confidential data it carries is removed before the device is retired or reused. Common methods of sanitization include imaging (or cloning), formatting and FDISKing. These methods appear to sanitize the devices on first glance; however, research has shown that residual data remains after employing such sanitization techniques.
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Source: searchsecurity.techtarget.com
By: Ashley Podhradsky
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