Phoenix Solutions

“Why the heck are your clients’ hard drives in the parking lot for anyone to take…?!”

On a not-so-recent trip to Denver, I was mixing a little work with personal (snowboarding of course) and dropped by an electronics recycler I’d been working with for a few years.

Strolling through his scrap yard parking lot I noticed this travesty.

I then greeted my friend with a warm, “Why the heck are your clients’ hard drives sitting in your parking lot for anyone to take?!”

(Who knows how long they’d been there like that!)

True story and, regrettably, they didn’t have a good excuse.

Matter of fact, there’s never a good excuse for data to ever be that close to a dreaded breach.

This happens more often than I wish though.

Businesses recycle their electronics with someone that makes their e-waste problem go away, but often without doing their data due diligence to understand if the vendor is “on their game.”

What does “on their game” mean though?

It means a ITAD recycler:
- has rigorous standards
- are certified and audited
- treat YOUR DATA and YOUR CLIENTS’ DATA with the utmost care

Our suggestion?

Know and vet an ITAD services provider that is NAID AAA Certified who will securely and quickly destroy your sensitive data — like they should!

Oh, yeah — said recycler with the parking lot hard drives? They’re no longer in business.

PS – the content part of my brain was elated to witness this and take a quick pic so I could tell the story! 🤣