There are many cases when your organization must delete sensitive data from corporate servers or other IT infrastructure. But is the deleted data truly gone, or can it still be accessed by cyber attackers? It isn’t gone forever. That’s where certified data erasure becomes a vital asset for your business – it safeguards the integrity of your most sensitive, confidential data and prevents it from falling into the wrong hands.
After Sony lost 100 terabytes of data to a cyber attack in November 2014, the company was widely criticized for lax records management. The most damaging files included tens of thousands of emails between studio executives that exposed the inner workings of Sony Pictures and led to serious backlash among the public and the media. Had emails regularly been deleted from corporate servers, it’s safe to say that the film studio would not have born the brunt of such negative publicity and a severely damaged corporate reputation.