How to close the gaps for risk with Restore Technology.
Have you defined how your business uses and, just as importantly, protects data so that you are not exposed?
Yes, some data is lost through hackers being half a step ahead of your cyber security and those losses are what tend to make the news. What is more scandalous, however, is that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) classifies about 80% of data breaches as being caused by human error.
Some of the commonest of those errors involve falling for phishing scams, clicking on a malicious link, emailing information to the wrong person, and failing to set up robust security measures. When you investigate some of the higher profile data breach failures that make it on to the front page, however, you will find that human error was almost inevitable because of the systems or procedures that were, or were not, in place.
There are three ways to make a difference to your organisation’s data protection mindset.
Draw up a comprehensive Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policy.
Use Restore Technology to help you implement your belt and braces approach.
Educate your colleagues and employees about the systems and procedures and keep on educating them.
Draw up a comprehensive DLP policy
Having a formalised DLP policy helps you comply with GDPR and WEEE Directive regulations, protects your intellectual property, and improves your knowledge of where your data is and who has access to it.
DLP policy elements should beef up areas surrounding data classification, access controls, encrypting ‘resting’ data, having a damage limitation plan in place that helps you mitigate and recover from data breaches or security issues, what you do with your IT assets once they are no longer needed, and employee education.
Restore Technology can help you implement your DLP policy
Our experience and expertise can support you throughout the entire lifecycle of your IT devices, from pre-life services that include on-site and remote development and deployment; mid-life services that help you smoothly incorporate moves and changes, and hard- and software upgrades, to end-of-life services that encompass data erasure, destruction, refurbishment and recycling.
Data protection training
Naturally, we cannot claim to solve every data protection issue since, overall, it’s a question of checks and balances between well thought-through systems and procedures that humans will intuitively and unfailingly use. It’s a big ask!
That’s why educating and regularly training your employees is a crucial element to your raft of data protection policies. By making it a regular part of a job role, as part of the mindset of working at your company, data protection becomes ingrained and habitual, part of the structure not just the culture.
Restore Technology benefits
We offer a complete package of data protection measures. With highly secure facilities across the UK, our economies of scale mean we can collect and process large volumes of assets to keep costs down. In addition, our strong data erasure capabilities enable us to securely destroy data while leaving devices intact which, in turn, allows us to re-market those assets through a range of channels. By realising their residual value, we can frequently return a rebate to you.
Environmentally friendly processes are woven into our operations. We use strict process flows to dismantle old or unusable equipment, segregating it into waste streams before sending it to vetted downstream waste partners for material reclamation. Nothing we process ever goes to landfill. Your personalised sustainability report will break down the materials reclaimed, the energy and resources saved through recycling.
To help get your business on track with a change of mindset, give one of our knowledgeable customer services team an initial call on 0333 060 1920 to talk through your data protection risk areas. Whether it’s laptop recycling, IT asset disposal or secure data erasure via HDD shredding, Restore Technology has got you covered.
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