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Hard Drive Shredding: Popular, but not Most Secure Destruction

Written by Garner Products, Inc. | Fri, Aug 21, 2020

With 1.5 million workers now working from home, data security risks have risen exponentially. Too often, hard drives and devices are left to pile up in the back of a non-secure, almost forgotten closet after remote worker equipment is returned for a replacement or upgrade. In addition, security teams, commonly operating with skeleton crews, are wondering how to properly dispose of all that decommissioned equipment filled with confidential, proprietary and even top-secret data.