How much would a data security breach cost your company? The answer is difficult to predict, and almost as difficult to determine after the fact because of the soft-number impact arising from damage to reputation, stock value and product sales. And the problem of data loss is on the rise, hitting high-profile corporations with alarming [...]

Will your company upgrade any of its computers this year? If so, you will have hard drives on your hands requiring secure retirement. Destruction is the only truly secure way to retire data, so tracking down a destruction contractor will be your first step. But you need to know more than whether or not they [...]

Let’s face it: you have a computer, so you have a data security problem. Every person who owns a computer, tablet or smartphone does. And if you run a business, you have the same problem, and your security picture is much more complex.
As the news often tells us, data hacking is common, and hackers are [...]

Every developed nation in the world holds partial responsibility for the mountain of e-waste that is growing every day. With, for example, 60% of people in the world owning cell phones—only to be replaced in a year or two with the newest model—that mountain is becoming a toxic and increasingly serious problem. Some users of [...]

Evan Francen is president of FRSecure LLC, information security consulting. Recently, RDS asked him some questions about data security issues, including the types of data companies should protect and future predictions.
Q. What research/statistics do you leverage to support your business actions?
A. We constantly review information from a variety of sources. We hold daily briefings with [...]

Every three months, Americans add enough aluminum to landfills to rebuild the entire U.S. commercial airline fleet. And throw away enough office paper each year to build a 12-foot-high wall of paper from New York City to Seattle.
But every year we have the opportunity to do better. Each year, November 15 is America Recycles Day [...]

Americans discard more than 130 million cell phones per year, generating 65,000 tons of trash. At RenovoData Services we set a goal to collect a quarter million cell phones.
Cell phones have become such a part of our lives, it seems odd when someone doesn’t own one.
But our handy cell phones contain some very nasty chemicals [...]

RenovoData Services will host one-day events to collect and dispose of electronic devices that hold private data. Data breaches don’t happen just to large companies. Think of all the tasks for which you use your computer or PDA—these devices contain a lot of personal data.
Please note, our events are not for all types of e-waste. [...]