| Data ages and often loses value to an enterprise as it ages. During each phase of data's lifespan, you must guard it, always ensuring that it doesn't leak into the wrong hands, while making it easily available to your own personnel. It is, after all, the lifeblood of modern businesses. Finally, when you scrap data, you must destroy it so that others can't "dumpster dive" and retrieve it after you thought that you'd scrapped it. If you run a business, it must conform to federal laws that protect the privacy of your customers and trading partners:
Protecting viable data
Protecting your enterprise's data may take many forms: Data Destruction
When you purge data from your business systems, you must ensure that the data are indeed irretrievable: Paper: microshred or burn reports Diskettes: Cut with scissors CDs and DVDs: Physically break into 3 or more fragments Hard drives: Drill multiple holes through the entire drive
When scrapping routers and modems, delete their non-volatile memories, so that IP addresses, routing tables, and administrator names and passwords no longer reside within their CMOS chips. | The FACTA Disposal rule extends to employers, landlords, automobile dealers, private investigators, debt collectors, and any individual who obtains credit reports on prospective contractors, such as nannies.
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