Category: Cybersecurity

Study Shows Personal Identifiable Information Found on Resold Electronics

What do you do with your old electronic devices? Because electronic waste can be hazardous when sent to landfills, it’s strongly recommended that you recycle your electronics instead. However, your personal information may be at risk if you don’t take precautions to protect it before disposing of these devices.The National Association for Information Destruction (NAID) […]

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ERI Named as a Representative Vendor in Gartner Market Guide for IT Asset Disposition (ITAD)

ERI, a leader in the IT asset disposition (ITAD), cybersecurity focused hardware destruction, and data destruction space, in addition to being the nation’s leading recycler of electronic waste, has been named as a Representative Vendor in the November 2016 Market Guide for the ITAD industry.Gartner, a leading IT market research firm, issued its Market Guide […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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‘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 […]

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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 […]

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