Supply issues driving the price of business hardware through the roof
Margin mugging, a practice whereby businesses purchase products with heavily inflated margins, was rampant in the IT industry last year, a report from managed IT services firm Probrand suggests. As reported by The Register, the firm analyzed $6.6 million worth of hardware bought by businesses in the three months before the pandemic, as well as the rest of 2020. It …
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Poor hardware disposal practices posing a risk to data security
Many business leaders aren’t paying much attention to the way they dispose of old and obsolete hardware, opening their organizations up to possible data breaches. This is according to a new report from DSA Connect, a company that specializes in the disposal of hardware and proper deletion of residual files. Of the 1,029 people polled for the report, a fifth …
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IT directors often resort to drastic methods to dispose of old hardware
Many IT directors fear old and obsolete hardware could put them at risk of data leaks, if it is not properly disposed of. With 10 percent of them describing their employer’s knowledge of data erasure and disposal of IT hardware as either “average” or “poor”, the threat is very real. This is according to a new report from IT asset …
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