Today on the podcast Mike Thrift from Dell EMC joins us to share his insights on how the field of data protection has changed in the last decade as well as where it is headed. "Data Protection, that was something that was easy to be passionate about, because it truly is something that impacts everybody.  Our data matters and as we continue to evolve into a more digital society, we are going to see that data become even more critical" Learn more about how WipeDrive Enterprise can help you keep your data secure ..read more

In this episode with Shana Danel we talk about a range of topics, from GDPR, and corporate data privacy as well as information privacy on a personal level.  What do you need to know if you want to become a Data Privacy professional? Listen in to learn more. "I always tell everyone to google yourself  routinely. Everybody always tells me that is incredibly arrogant, and it's not. The point is to see what kind of information is out there. The amount of information that I have found on myself is alarming. Every so often I go out there and ask these websites to take it down." More abou ..read more

We are excited to have Jasmine Tinker join the Data Management Podcast. She is the It Data Privacy and Compliance Analyst at a major multi-national corporation. We will discuss how she stays current in the industry, third-party service provider issues and remote work force security. "Take data security seriously. A lot of board of directors are just now starting to realize, hey 'I think we do need to protect our data'. Or maybe we are not as safe and vigilante as we could be. Also for employees to take security trainings seriously.  A lot of times  people are like 'ugh another secur ..read more

Do you read the End User License Agreement? It can be a little dull, but it could also be worth it. You may find that you are allowed to have second machine running the software at no extra cost, or you may find out that the rights to anything you create with that application belong to software publisher.  It's important to know what you are agreeing to. Is it currently supported? Is there a security risk with this product? Listen in to hear more about this and about Software Asset Management (SAM). Has the COVID pandemic affected SAM? What issues has it brought up and how are we resolv ..read more

Find out more about the drive failure statistics Backblaze published in this episode of the Data Management Podcast. We sit down with Andy Klein from Backblaze to talk about their drive stats data. Backblaze asked the question "Can we do more, provide more information to our customers about the drives they depend on?" Backblaze publishes drive failure data regularly. What can we learn from it? How can we use it? Listen in to learn more. Learn more about how WipeDrive Enterprise can help you keep your data secure. Get more podcasts by WipeDrive ..read more

When is comes to data security at the end of a devices use, what is the best practice? Physical destruction of the device or a data erasure with a certified software tool? We talked with Neil Peters-Michaud about his experience in the ITAD industry to get his take on it. Listen in for all the details. Learn more about how WipeDrive Enterprise can help you keep your data secure. Get more podcasts by WipeDrive ..read more

Have you heard of ADISA? What is it and what do they do? We talk to Steve Mellings and get all the details. Listen in to learn more about ADISA and why it is so important for your data security especially on those SSD drives. Learn more about how WipeDrive Enterprise can help you keep your data secure. Get more podcasts by WipeDrive ..read more

We sit down with David Blaise to get some insight into what it is like to decommission drives from a data center setting. Learn some of the tricks he has learned from his years in the business and why data sanitization is so important, even before the drive leaves the cage. If you are in the position to make decisions about what happens when you data center hardware reaches ends of life, this is the podcast for you. What do you do with these drives and servers? Are you outsourcing this or doing it yourself? Are you making the mistake of letting the hardware leave your premisses with data still ..read more