Government
NIST 800-88 Rev 2 Implementation for Federal Agencies: What Changed and What Auditors Now Expect
NIST Special Publication 800-88 Revision 2 was published on September 26, 2025, formally superseding Revision 1 after a public comment period that closed August 29, 2025. For federal agencies operating…
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GLBA Safeguards Rule Updates: What the 2023 Amendments Mean for Bank ITAD Programs
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act has governed financial-services data protection since 1999, but the operational text most ITAD programs cite, the Safeguards Rule, looked very different in 2003 than it does in…
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ATM Decommissioning: PCI DSS, Cash Handling, and Hardware Disposition Compliance
An ATM is the densest concentration of regulated data and physical-security controls a bank ever ships through a logistics chain. A single retired unit holds cardholder data on internal storage,…
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Hospital M&A IT Integration: HIPAA Compliance During Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures
Hospital M&A activity rebounded sharply in early 2026: 22 transactions announced in Q1, the highest first-quarter total in six years, with $14.5 billion in transacted revenue per Kaufman Hall’s published…
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Data Centers
Asset Reconciliation in Data Center Decommissioning: Closing the Inventory Gap That Cost Morgan Stanley $161M
In 2019, during a Morgan Stanley hardware refresh, 42 servers containing sensitive customer data were physically gone and could not be located through the bank’s internal inventory reconciliation process. That…
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Cage Vacancy Decontamination: The ITAD Checklist Before You Hand Back Colocation Space
You signed a colocation lease, racked your hardware, and ran your workloads. Now you’re exiting the cage and the operator wants the space ready for the next tenant. Here’s what…
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ITAD
Enterprise ITAD: How Large Organizations Manage IT Asset Disposition at Scale
The transition from transactional to programmatic IT asset disposition is the most consequential shift in how enterprise organizations handle end-of-life equipment. A Fortune 1000 company retiring 30,000 laptops a year…
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ITAD
When Is IT Asset Destruction Enough, and When Do You Need Full ITAD?
If your search started with “IT asset destruction,” your situation probably has urgency attached to it. A breach response, a classified-data engagement, a litigation hold, an equipment refresh where the…
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ITAD Services Explained: What’s Included, What’s Priced Separately, What to Expect
If you’re comparing IT asset disposition (ITAD) proposals from two or three vendors and the numbers look wildly different, the explanation usually isn’t that one vendor is dramatically cheaper. They’ve…
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ITAD
How to Choose an ITAD Vendor: An Evaluation Framework
The IT asset disposition (ITAD) market is large, fast-growing, and uneven. Industry estimates put it at roughly $17.5 billion globally in 2025, projected to more than double by 2035. Inside…
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