If your business deals in any way with sensitive information, be it customer credit card data, medical records, or any other type of private information, then you need to ensure your data is being destroyed in accordance with NIST data erasure guidelines or you may be unnecessarily increasing your company’s liability risk. Due to the complex and time-consuming nature of thorough data erasure and the risks involved with doing it incorrectly, many businesses choose to outsource this task to experienced data destruction vendors. If you’re unsure of whether or not […]
Have you ever wondered what sets Liquid Technology apart from other computer liquidation and data destruction firms? If so, we’re releasing seven new IT asset management services videos designed to help give you a better idea of what it is we do. At Liquid Technology, we’re serious about data security and customer satisfaction, so we strive to offer the latest generation of data destruction, e-waste recycling and disposal, and other IT asset management services. Watch the following videos to get an in-depth look into the services we offer, the quality […]
Data destruction methods range from degaussing to physical disc shredding to wiping a hard drive using specially designed software. All three are effective at what they are designed to do, but only one method provides truly auditable proof of the data’s destruction – data wiping. If your company stores very sensitive data for business purposes, then it needs to have a system of protecting that data. This becomes increasingly more important should the company be liquidating its older computers and recordable media. The data needs to be rendered irretrievable and […]
Liquid Technology was recently contacted by a multi-billion dollar hedge fund with a unique problem. The company regularly undergoes scheduled upgrades to its IT infrastructure, and the frequent upgrades resulted in the company compiling a large inventory of computer equipment, hard drives, and LTO tapes that were no longer being used. The drives and tapes still retained sensitive data, such as trading strategies and client information, and as a result, company policy prohibited any of the equipment from being transported off-site for traditional data destruction processing. Liquid Technology’s On-Site Hard […]
One of the greatest misconceptions in the data sanitization industry is a piece of paper called a “certificate of data destruction.” Many data destruction companies issue these “certificates” to their clients as a means of proving the legitimacy and quality of their services. But unbeknownst to most customers, data destruction certificates of this type carry no weight whatsoever as the industry currently has no such certifying authority. Printed data destruction certificates are not a guarantee of security and they offer no real measurable way of validating that 100% of the […]