Garner’s 2021 Year in Review
2021 was a successful year for Garner. We are grateful to our employees, customers, and business partners for believing in our mission of preventing data breaches through proper IT asset disposition....
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DriveSavers Recovers Data from the Most Hopeless Circumstances
A data recovery story: “A Powerbook was trapped for two days in a sunken cruise ship at the bottom of the Amazon River. The owner grabbed their scuba gear and dove down to rescue it. DriveSavers...
A Tale of Two CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers)
When Andrew, in California, was appointed Chief Information Security Officer of his company in 2019, he felt a great sense of determination to protect his company from outside threats, such as...
Why is degaussing the best data destruction for HIPAA Compliance?
Imagine holding a letter in your hands that says that a hard drive containing your private, protected health information has gone missing. INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center, Inc., sent such a letter in...
Data Destruction vs Hard Drive Destruction
To destroy means “to ruin the structure or the condition of.” Picture an ax-wielding man on a wild rampage smashing guitars. The guitars have been broken up into pieces but are still recognizable.
How to Destroy Hard Drives: NSA Data Sanitization
Nothing lasts forever, and this includes data storage devices. When it comes to end-of-life hard drive data sanitization and destroying hard drives, you have options. In order to sanitize a magnetic...
Never Trust. Always Verify
Nothing. Nil. Zero. That’s how much trust you should have in your users, devices, and network when it comes to today’s increasingly dispersed and complex data environment, according to the National...
The Critical Data Security and Data Privacy Risk
“Many of us get medication at a pharmacy. Recently, I watched as the clerk filled my prescription, which comes in duplicate out of the fax machine. Following data privacy protocol, she very carefully...
Garner Recognizes: Keith Skinner, Varese-secure Ltd.
An unexpected data explosion occurred in March 2020 when millions of workers suddenly left the security of their offices to work from home.
DoD 5220.22-M: The Data Wipe Myth
Wiping standards have been debunked by the DoD. It’s been replaced by modern standards like the NSA/CSS policy manual 9-12 storage device sanitization and destruction manual.