Recycling Idle Servers Saves Energy

Every day, companies around the world are upgrading and expanding their data centers. Though these investments mean improved speed, service and data security, plans for their acquisition all too often leave out consideration of what to do with the servers that are...

Certificate of Data Destruction and Company of Liability

Certificate of Destruction does NOT release your Company of Liability A certificate of data destruction is a document from a vendor that states digital media has been destroyed. The document can be as simple as a single sentence stating that computer hard drives have...

HIPAA Patient Data Destruction

Ineffective HIPAA patient data destruction could increase the current annual cost of patient privacy breaches at around $5.6 billion. In an attempt to protect patient privacy, hospitals have been focusing on external intrusion detection and hard drive encryption. In...

Damages Required for Data Breach Lawsuit

Can consumers file lawsuits for ID theft or data breach? Data breaches are increasingly common.  Can consumers file a lawsuit for damages caused by a data breach or identity theft? The real question is: will consumers be compensated because their personal information...

A Data Breach is inevitable – Costs Climb to $4 Million

The issue of data breaches continues to grow. Data breaches impact companies of all types and in every industry, posing threats that corporate executives and business owners are only now truly beginning to understand. A recent study provided a better sense of exactly...