Best Practices for Protecting Data in Failed and Decommissioned Storage Media

This IDC study provides best practices for enforcing corporate data privacy policies in failed and decommissioned storage media.

"Data privacy is a critical component of IT operational risk, which, in turn, is a key lever in measuring a corporation's enterprise risk management rating," says Vivian Tero, program manager, Compliance Infrastructure, IDC. "Standard and Poor's is increasingly paying attention to these metrics. It is therefore in the interest of corporations to demonstrate sound data privacy and IT risk management operations. Doing so could enable them to lower their cost of capital as they look to raise funds in the capital markets."