Common Risk Scenario
Your hard drives pose a constant risk of data breach, but the two largest areas of concern are during storage and transport. It's a fact that the longer retired equipment sits in storage, the more likely it is to go AWOL.
This means you will have to disclose to your customers and shareholders that you may have leaked information.
During transport, you also experience increased levels of risk, because no matter how solid a chain of custody is hard drives are often being moved by multiple people on mulitple trucks to multiple facilities - all out of your control.
Humans are typically the weakest link in the information security process. That is why we always destroy hard drives onsite, eliminating this risk.
Most recent data breaches:
Information at Risk
- Bank account numbers
- Biometric information
- Classified information
- Copyrighted material
- Corporate financial records
- Credit card numbers
- Department of Defense secrets
- DNA records
- Driver's license numbers
- Encryption keys
- Firewall configuration files
- Information security documents
- Investment account information
- Medical records
- Law enforcement records
- Legal cases and records
- Login and password information
- National security information
- Passport numbers
- Patents
- Personal email
- Pharmaceutical formulas
- Political campaign secrets
- Pornography
- Proprietary information
- Retirement account information
- Router ACLs
- Security configuration files
- Sensitive customer information
- Social Security numbers
- Standardized test scores
- Stock trades
- Strategic business plans
- Tax records
- Trade secrets
