IT Data Security

What Are the Costs of a Data Breach?

What Are the Costs of a Data Breach? The ninth annual Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Study, released by IBM and the Ponemon Institute, […]

Increasing Regulation & Enforcement in IT Security for HIPAA

HIPAA and the Undeniable Trend toward Increasing Regulation & Enforcement in IT Security Governments at the State and Federal levels have recognized the growing […]

The IT Industry’s Dirty Secret when it comes to Data Breaches

The IT Industry’s Dirty Little Secret: Most Data Breaches Occur Off-Network Headlines such as those involving the NSA and data security privacy are seen daily […]

The Ramifications of Data Breaches: What’s Your Liability?

The Ramifications of Data Breaches: What’s Your Liability? It’s a common misconception that when it comes to IT equipment the liability associated with its embedded media and […]

Six Tips to Protecting Your Off-Network Devices

Six Tips to Protecting Your Off-Network Devices In the past 13 years of handling data security for some of the most risk averse companies […]

Legal and Security Risks in Companies IT Assets Whitepaper

Most Companies Are Not Prepared for the Legal and Security Risks When it Comes to Their IT Assets, According to Brass Valley Whitepaper Between 70% […]

Why You Should be Concerned about Embedded Data

Why You Should be Concerned about Embedded Data Embedded data is any data that’s stored on media that is easily overlooked when assessing a security […]

Data Breach Success Story

Everything we do for our clients is done with the intention of preventing data breaches and/or putting them in the best position possible to recover when something goes wrong. For best practices in IT asset disposition we prescribe having an inventory list for assets that are decommissioned and sent to us to be recycled. When the reporting is received back from us, the client is encouraged to quickly reconcile and address any discrepancies.

Indemnification

Indemnification – What happens if something goes wrong? We’ve all heard stories of how someone went to a hospital for a procedure and a serious […]

Important Questions Companies ask Brass Valley

When we’re being evaluated to provide data security and asset disposition services there are 4 questions companies should be asking.

The validity of the questions above is not to be underestimated but it always seemed interesting to me that the companies focus the majority of their attention on tasks and events that happen prior to something going wrong and very little on what they would actually do if something did go wrong. Yet we’re all human and mistakes happen all the time so wouldn’t it make sense to actually think through what happens in the event of a data breach? With that in mind I’d like to suggest another set of questions to add to your evaluation list.