Net Zeros and Ones

CHAPTER 7Asset Lifecycle Management

• 7.1 Data Sanitization Program
• 7.2 Laptops and Desktops
• 7.3 Servers and Network Gear
  • 7.3.1 Edge Computing
• 7.4 Mobile Devices
  • 7.4.1 Crypto-Erase
  • 7.4.2 Mobile Phone Processing
  • 7.4.3 Enterprise Data Erasure for Mobile Devices
    • 7.4.3.1 Bring Your Own Device
    • 7.4.3.2 Corporate-Issued Devices
• 7.5 Internet of Things: Unconventional Computing Devices
  • 7.5.1 Printers and Scanners
  • 7.5.2 Landline Phones
  • 7.5.3 Industrial Control Systems
  • 7.5.4 HVAC Controls
  • 7.5.5 Medical Devices
• 7.6 Automobiles
  • 7.6.1 Off-Lease Vehicles
  • 7.6.2 Used Vehicle Market
  • 7.6.3 Sanitization of Automobiles
• 7.7 Summary

7.1 Data Sanitization Program

For most organizations, employee computers (including desktops, laptops, and tablets) pose the most pressing need for a defined data sanitization program. The fear of an embarrassing or damaging leak occurring because one of these devices ends up in the wrong hands is usually what sparks the creation of such a program. Many organizations with an IT department of one or two people may have a closet full of old clunky laptops and tower computers just because the fear is there but the program for processing them has not been initiated. Perhaps they even use DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) to erase them and then list them for sale on eBay, or donate them to charity. Office-supply chains have computer disposal services. Even the Salvation Army will collect old computers. Sometimes these organizations turn them over to an ITAD, which ...