The Absolute IT Asset Disposal Blog

It’s so tempting and easy to use your work laptop for occasional personal use. After all, how can it matter if one does a little online shopping during lunch break? That’s often how it starts. The stark reality is that there are many reasons why it's a bad idea to use your work laptop for personal use.

Headline grabbing security breaches are always the ones involving big names in business – Facebook, Equifax, Yahoo and suchlike. This could lead one to believe that hackers target only large corporations.

If you want to get rid of data, then you just need to delete it, right? Well, it depends on what you really want to achieve. Deleting your data may mean that you can no longer see it when you look for files on your hard drive but it does not necessarily mean you have erased the data entirely. The trouble is that terms like erase, wipe and delete are all used interchangeably and they are not –...

Corporate IT managers and company directors often remark about how quickly old IT equipment becomes obsolete. Even computers that were being used as recently as two or three years ago can seem slow given today's demands. As digital technology becomes ever more advanced, so businesses need to reinvest in their networking and other IT equipment.

Different browsers operate in different ways but basically, users want them to do the same thing – to load up pages rapidly so they can view the information they want to see. However, all browsers must do another job which is often going on behind the scenes, that of protecting your device from malware, whether it is a desktop computer, a laptop or a tablet.

Cyber security is not just for government departments and big businesses. All enterprises which use networked computers can suffer from hackers who often use genuine login details to gain unwarranted access to your servers and steal your data. If you don't take cyber security seriously, then your customers' private data may be at risk, leading to reputational damage and the likelihood of big...

The importance of data security cannot be overestimated. There have been a number of high profile cases in the recent past – in the UK and elsewhere – where data breaches have occurred that have done huge reputational damage to the businesses concerned.

Even established businesses can find it tricky to keep up to date with increasing digitisation these days. Unless you run a tech start-up enterprise, it may seem like the digital world has left your business behind. However, all sorts of companies – from SMEs to large corporations – need to embrace digitisation or they will get left behind in the end. Even long-established processes like filling...

You are probably already aware of the critical importance of a robust and secure IT asset disposal policy and process. The risks to an organisation of data leakage from equipment disposal are simply too great to tolerate an amateurish or careless approach.

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre is part of GCHQ and has published its advice on 10 Steps to Cyber Security which is well worth studying - even for non-IT people - as it details an expert risk management approach. Threats are constantly evolving in sophistication and becoming more difficult to successfully defend against.