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Four Questions to ask Your ITAD Provider
Whether you are undergoing a refresh, relocating offices or beginning your journey to the cloud, you will need to ensure that your data is dealt with securely and for this, you will need to ensure that you engage with a reliable data processor. With so many companies...
What the GDPR means for IT Disposal
The GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulation, will come into force in May 2018. The regulation, set by European Parliament, intends to strengthen and unify data protection regulations across the EU. Much of what the new regulation legislates for is covered by the...
MIFID II For Dummies: How Will It Affect Your Business?
There are a number of new and updated regulations coming into place in 2018, leading many businesses to seriously reconsider their approach to data security and how they manage sensitive data. We have heard plenty about the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)...
Cyber Security for your Business: Keeping Your Data Safe
For most businesses, providing your staff access to the internet is essential for them to work effectively. However, along with the benefits this brings, there are also several cyber security risks, especially in terms of your business data security. This means that...
Security Limitations of the Solid State Drive
The expansion and innovation of storage mediums has been a priority since the start of personal computing. While some of the traditional hard drives, HDDs, have remained much the same for over 50 years, faster and more efficient storage technologies, such as SSDs,...
How to Dispose of a Company Computer Securely
In today’s increasingly digital world, computers are indispensable to most companies. Not only do they allow employees to do their jobs, computers are also used to store sensitive data about the company, its employees and its clients. This means that when your company...
How to Erase Mobile Data Securely – The Limitations of Factory Reset
Whether or not we like it, we are becoming more and more reliant on mobile devices - an average person will check theirs 46 times per day. Not only are they practically indispensable in our personal lives, many of us couldn’t realistically do our job without them....
GDPR: Why does it matter and how to get it right
When the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force in May 2018 it will transform the way that any organisation has to look after personal data. Increasingly however, we are finding organisations are “GDPR-ed” out – exhausted and...
The Dangers of Free IT Asset Disposal: Data Security
No one ever likes to spend money unnecessarily, and it is great when you find a free or low cost service that will do the job properly. However, IT disposal is not an area in which it pays to cut corners. The financial savings you may make are invalidated by the data...
What is Wannacry?
On Friday 12th May 2017, a large cyber-attack using WannaCry ransomware, targeting Microsoft Windows operating systems, was launched. It has swiftly infected more than 230,000 computers in 150 countries (with the ransom payments being requested in bitcoin in more than...
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Should Your Office Go Paperless?
The concept of a paperless office has been around since the mid-1970s, yet paper is still one of the biggest barriers when it comes to corporate digitisation. Whilst office walls are no longer lined with jam-packed filing cabinets, business paper usage continues to...
Is Dirty Data Silently Sabotaging your Business?
Leading market research company, IDC forecasts that the data created during the next three years, will exceed all data created in the previous 30 years. ^ 2.5 quintillion bytes of data is created every day.+. The data integrity of that staggering amount of information...
Is Bloatware a Cybersecurity Risk?
Bloatware isn’t new but despite this, it remains unexpected by the majority of end-users when they excitedly unpack their new ‘clutter-free’ device. You may have found yourself wondering why the operating system takes up quite so much of the valuable storage you have...
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Things to Consider When Decommissioning a Data Centre
There are several different factors to consider when decommissioning a data centre, not just for a smooth operation and minimal risk, but also to ensure that you yield the maximum value from your IT assets. However, it’s not just your IT assets that you’ll need to...
Maximising Value from Your ITAD Reverse Supply Chain
Business technology is a wheel that never stops spinning. Each year the average speed of the computers available to buy increases, while data storage capabilities double on average. This results in a consistently high turnover of technology, as businesses strive to...
Chain of Custody: Do you know where your IT Assets are?
Since the GDPR came into play in 2018, businesses are highly aware of the importance of dealing with data appropriately to safeguard both business information and that of employees and clients. Secure passwords, 2-factor authentication (2FA) and anti-phishing training...
Are Your Ageing IT Assets a Data Security Threat?
There comes a point in the life of every business when the time comes to upgrade your IT infrastructure. The pace of technological change moves so quickly that IT assets which were once cutting edge soon become dated. Upgrading your IT infrastructure can add huge...
Managing a Secure IT Asset Disposition Program
You might presume that disposing of your redundant IT equipment is as simple as wiping sensitive data and removing it from your business premises, be that through resale or disposal. In reality, however, there is much more to managing a secure IT asset disposition...
4 Reasons You Should Outsource ITAD
It’s important for every business to have a plan for their IT Asset Disposition process. While many businesses believe they can deal with ITAD in-house, there are a number of different reasons for outsourcing these services. Despite common misconceptions that keeping...
Recent Stories
Should Your Office Go Paperless?
The concept of a paperless office has been around since the mid-1970s, yet paper is still one of the biggest barriers when it comes to corporate digitisation. Whilst office walls are no longer lined with jam-packed filing cabinets, business paper usage continues to...
Is Dirty Data Silently Sabotaging your Business?
Leading market research company, IDC forecasts that the data created during the next three years, will exceed all data created in the previous 30 years. ^ 2.5 quintillion bytes of data is created every day.+. The data integrity of that staggering amount of information...
Is Bloatware a Cybersecurity Risk?
Bloatware isn’t new but despite this, it remains unexpected by the majority of end-users when they excitedly unpack their new ‘clutter-free’ device. You may have found yourself wondering why the operating system takes up quite so much of the valuable storage you have...
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Things to Consider When Decommissioning a Data Centre
There are several different factors to consider when decommissioning...
Maximising Value from Your ITAD Reverse Supply Chain
Business technology is a wheel that never stops spinning. Each year...
Chain of Custody: Do you know where your IT Assets are?
Since the GDPR came into play in 2018, businesses are highly aware...
Are Your Ageing IT Assets a Data Security Threat?
There comes a point in the life of every business when the time...
Managing a Secure IT Asset Disposition Program
You might presume that disposing of your redundant IT equipment is...
4 Reasons You Should Outsource ITAD
It’s important for every business to have a plan for their IT Asset...
Recent Stories
Should Your Office Go Paperless?
The concept of a paperless office has been around since the mid-1970s, yet paper is still one of the biggest barriers when it comes to corporate digitisation. Whilst office walls are no longer lined with jam-packed filing cabinets, business paper usage continues to...
Is Dirty Data Silently Sabotaging your Business?
Leading market research company, IDC forecasts that the data created during the next three years, will exceed all data created in the previous 30 years. ^ 2.5 quintillion bytes of data is created every day.+. The data integrity of that staggering amount of information...
Is Bloatware a Cybersecurity Risk?
Bloatware isn’t new but despite this, it remains unexpected by the majority of end-users when they excitedly unpack their new ‘clutter-free’ device. You may have found yourself wondering why the operating system takes up quite so much of the valuable storage you have...
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