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June 23, 2016

News Room

ERI Featured In The Verge Discussing E-waste Recycling

The Verge recently interviewed CEO John Shegerian and featured ERI in a piece highlighting the success of the New York City e-waste recycling program. “It’s a constant challenge,” says John Shegerian, CEO of the Fresno, California-based Electronics Recyclers International. With seven facilities around the country, ERI is one of the biggest e-waste recyclers in the US. […]

June 16, 2016

News Room

Electronic Recyclers International Names Tammy Shegerian to Board of Directors

ERI, the nation’s leading recycler of electronic waste, announced today that it has named Tammy Shegerian to its Board of Directors. As ERI’s current Chief Operating Officer, Shegerian oversees and manages the day-to-day operations of each aspect of the organization, including sales oversight, and has played a key leadership role in the company’s rapid growth […]

June 13, 2016

How To Protect Your Tech Startup From Hackers

John Shegerian, co-founder and CEO of ERI, was recently quoted in an Inc.com article about protecting tech startups from hackers. Tech Disposal & Data DestructionEvery tech startup will have to dispose of data sooner or later. It’s difficult to truly wipe an external hard-drive, USB stick, cell phone or other electronic device entirely. Smart attackers can […]

June 10, 2016

What’s Your Data Destruction Policy and Why It Matters

Stolen data is a constant threat for most businesses large and small, and a data destruction policy is an important step toward securing the precious information stored on most devices. In this post, we’ll take a look at the many ways that data security is a predominant issue in the world today and the ways […]

May 25, 2016

‘It’s Still There’: Effective Data Wiping for the 21st Century

Electronic devices can be vulnerable to theft of private information even after they’re discarded. This data safety threat makes data wiping and erasure a big topic for electronics recyclers. Back in 2009, a little known story of theft surfaced in the media. This wasn’t ordinary theft however. The “thieves” were actually Vancouver students documenting what happens to e-waste after […]

May 18, 2016

Cyber Investing Summit 2016: Hack Attack Recovery Panel

John Shegerian, CEO and co-founder of ERI, the world’s largest electronic recycling and hardware data security company, talks about how the cyber security focus of most government agencies and corporations is on the software side of electronic devices, and the importance of the hardware side of cyber security. Shegerian explains cyber threats to hardware, both […]

May 18, 2016

Blog

What is Responsible Electronics Recycling And Why Does It Matter?

Is it true that nothing online be considered 100% safe? It’s the type of question most address with the familiar ‘better safe than sorry’, but what about offline, after a device is discarded and heading for the recycling center? It’s true. Electronic devices, hardware vessels for sensitive and private information, can become a means for serious […]

May 10, 2016

Watchdog group tracks what really happens to your ‘recycled’ e-waste

The U.S. leads the world in e-waste, and while electronic recycling is increasingly popular, what happens after consumers drop off their computers, phones and other products is less clear. A watchdog group has found a lot of tossed junk, with its toxic components, winds up in poorer nations — and that very little recycling is […]

May 9, 2016

Cyber Investing Summit Recap Featuring ERI’s John Shegerian

Steve Morgan CSO The 2016 Cyber Investing Summit was held at the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street earlier this week. For CSOs and IT security executives who couldn’t make the sold-out event, here’s the five best-of-show nods — according to a CSO blogger who was on hand (yours truly). Best demo goes to […]

May 9, 2016

Entrepreneur’s Cyber Firm Shreds Hacked Servers Into Tiny Little Pieces

Steve Morgan Forbes.com A couple of burly men walk into an office building and emerge an hour later carrying a few new servers and some network gear. They put the equipment into the back of an eighteen-wheeler and haul it to an offsite location. The computers and peripherals are loaded onto a giant shredder and […]

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