The movies have given people a lot of bad information when it comes to data security. They often show dimly lit rooms with teenage technical wizards clacking away on their keyboards, “hacking” into your computer, and making off with your information. But hacking isn’t like this at all. Sometimes it is as basic as digging through a dumpster for a discarded computer. In this TedTalk clip, one expert hacker talks about leaving keychain thumb drives in hotels for people to pick up. They will then copy the information from that person’s computer and make it available to the hacker remotely.
Hacking isn’t always about a programmer pecking away at their keyboard from halfway across the world. Often, it is taking physical control of data media, your hard drive, thumb drives, or even breaking into an area and just taking what they want. A sure-fire way to protect your data is by controlling anyone’s access to it. Even old information, such as a fried hard drive, random thumb drives you might not think will work anymore. Likewise, DVD and CDs that might seem scratched or damaged can be a treasure trove of information in the wrong hands. That is why Phiston Technologies leads the market in media destruction devices. Simply reformatting or erasing media is never good enough.
Complete destruction through crushing, piercing, and pulverizing storage media is the best way to go to ensure your expired devices and volumes can’t come back to haunt you. Corporations trust our devices. They are approved by the Intelligence community for security, based on government standards at the topmost levels of national security.
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So if you want to make sure the bad guys don’t get any of your data, contact us today to see how you can make sure that won’t happen.
