A laptop can be removed from an employee’s desk, disconnected from the network and marked retired in an asset system within the same afternoon. None of those steps means the data risk has disappeared. Retired technology often sits in storage rooms or staging locations before reaching its final destination. During that period, devices still contain The post Retired Devices, Active Risks: How an ITAD Company Protects Data After Decommissioning appeared first on IT Security Guru.
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