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White papers and presentations - Electronics and Computer Reuse and Recycling
View or download white papers and presentations about the ewaste industry, including features on computer equipment asset management and reuse. Extend your understanding of WEEE recycling issues, options for office equipment disposal and the importance of ensuring data security. Links at the bottom of the page highlight what can go wrong if your organisation does not use secure data disposal channels.
- PDF of a PowerPoint Presentation: Securing the data on your retired electronic assets
- White Paper: Managing the retirement of electronic assets
- PDF of a Powerpoint Presentation: Protecting the environment, your data and your budget
- Data security concerns: 34% of discarded hard drives contain confidential data
This presentation, delivered at the May 2010 Information Governance, Risk and Compliance Event in London, outlines what data is at risk from being obtained from each electronic asset, such as PC's, photocopiers, printers, PDAs and medical devices.
It showcases data leakage examples, outlines how such data can be obtained and what options your organisation has for securely destroying confidential data as part of your equipment decommissioning process.
This white paper (January 2010) provides an overview of the electronic asset retirement, recovery and recycling process. It explores key issues such as:
- Data security
- UK and European legislation relating to office equipment disposal
- Reuse, remarketing and recycling options
- Asset tracking
- Key questions to ask your service provider
View or download a presentation made by Sims Recycling Solutions at the 2009 Green IT Expo Event in London. The focus is on sustainable business practices whilst protecting critical data and managing budgets. The presentation provides a useful insight into key features and benefits of IT Asset Recovery Services.
A study sponsored by BT and Sims Recycling Solutions and carried out by the forensic computer science laboratories at University of Glamorgan in Wales, Edith Cowan University in Australia and Longwood University in the US, has revealed that 34% of discarded hard drives still contain confidential data. The nature of the data might even have threatened national security if found by the wrong hands.
What can go wrong if data isn't securely deleted prior to reselling electronic and IT equipment?
These links highlight the potential risks to organisations if they don't use robust data deletion services prior to reselling electronic and computer equipment:
- The Register documents what can go wrong if organisations dispose of networking equipment without decommissioning correctly: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/29/second_hand_vpn_security_breach/print.html
- This article reveals how data left on second hand smart phones are fetching a premium in Nigeria, which includes comments from Sims' Jon Godfrey: http://www.pronetworks.org/index.php/content/post/trade_in_secondhand_blackberries_booming_in_nigeria/
- A hard drive containing bank customer details bought on eBay for £35: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1049121/Government-probe-launched-details-million-bank-customers-sold-eBay.html
- In the US, a CBS News investigative reporter found tens of thousands of police records on a digital photocopier bought second hand: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/19/eveningnews/main6412439.shtml