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| Redemtech Sponsors CIO Webcast on Off-Network Security |
 Robert Houghton, president of Redemtech recently participated in a CIO Magazine Webcast, titled: Preventing High Profile Data Breaches: A Root Cause Approach, along with Dr. Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute and Miriam Wugmeister, partner with Morrison & Foerster.
Using the 2007 Ponemon Institute research report, National Survey: The Insecurity of Off-Network Security as a guide, attendees of the Webcast gained insight on preventing a costly and increasingly common data security breach.
Incredibly, 62 percent of the study respondents confirmed that, or are unsure if, their off-network equipment contains unprotected sensitive or confidential information, and 30 percent say they would never detect the loss or theft of private data from off-network equipment.
Not only do breaches cost companies time and money, but often reputations as well. Wugmeister offered startling information from a legal standpoint regarding the consequences for data security breaches including federal regulatory and state attorney general action as well as private and class-action lawsuits.
The panel of experts offered recommendations for closing the gap in security and asset management practices, reviewed the off-network security policies that every organization should have in place, and revealed how to support those policies with processes that protect data-bearing assets as they move through, and outside, an organization.
View the on-demand Webcast ›
| Redemtech Releases Off-Network Security White Paper |
 Redemtech recently released a new white paper: Preventing Off-Network Data Breaches: Securing the Final Mile on best practices that organizations can implement to better protect equipment when it is removed from the network.
These best practices are recommended to help organizations prevent off-network security lapses, which according to research by the Ponemon Institute accounts for 70 percent of data breaches.
The costs of data breaches continue to rise—up 8 percent since 2006 and up 43 percent compared to 2005, according to a new Ponemon Institute study on the cost of a data breach. The average total per-incident cost of a breach is now $6.3, up from $4.8 million in 2006, according to the study. Gartner estimates the cost of a sensitive data breach will increase 20 percent per year through 2009.
The white paper addresses key issues and off-network security processes every organization should employ to ensure assets are protected, including implementing effective management systems, controlling and limiting inventory, creating documentary audit trails, ensuring reliable accounting processes are in place, and measuring the effectiveness of procedures and the means for improving them.
Download the white paper ›
| E-Waste Guru Offers Unique Insight on Redemtech Blog |
 Redemtech welcomes its newest blogger, Jim Mejia, vice president of environmental affairs, to its (re) blog. Jim brings more than 30 years experience in the environmental field to the blog, offering a unique perspective on the industry. Jim’s background includes developing a number of green e-waste process technologies, in addition to leadership capacities in the air-water-soil treatment, copper, aluminum, lead and brass smelter industries. Jim’s first posting, Safety First – Even Outside Our Industry, offers an in-depth look at the issue of dumping e-waste and the environmental and safety problems it causes – specifically in China.
Read Jim’s blog posting ›
| Robert Houghton Presents to Ponemon’s RIM Council |
 Huge breaches of confidential data seem to be reported by the media on a weekly basis, in spite of substantial security efforts. Why are we failing, and why do breaches continue to occur almost daily across the country?
This question was recently posed to the Ponemon Institute’s Responsible Information Management (RIM) Council by Redemtech President Robert Houghton. He explained that breaches are so persistent because of lack of governance and management rigor, stemming ultimately from a lack of executive focus on the issue of off-network security. Ultimately, companies are spending big bucks to lock the front door, but are leaving the back door wide open.
In his presentation, he offered best practices for the remediation of off-network security including the importance of executive support, governance and allocated budget for the issue.
The RIM Council, which consists of private and public corporations and experts, was created by the Ponemon Institute to “facilitate problem solving and provide links to the best available information in the privacy and data protection disciplines.”
Download the scripted presentation ›
| Redemtech Launches New E-Commerce Site: RedRabbitt.com |
Redemtech recently re-launched its online remarketing business—complete with a new name, a new look and a host of enhancements designed to improve the shopping experience. RedRabbitt.com is a portal to certified, pre-owned quality business technology—coming from Redemtech’s Global 1000 companies—offered at a wholesale price to wholesale buyers, value-added resellers, individual businesses and consumers.
Red Rabbitt offers the largest selection of in-demand computer products and general office equipment including desktops, laptops and mini-towers, business servers, telecom and networking gear, monitors, printers, phone systems and more—available in single orders or container loads.
Some of the major enhancements to the e-commerce site include:
- A completely new, intuitive user interface and vastly streamlined navigation system
- An all-new online RMA system that now allows users to recall their orders online and select the merchandise they wish to return
- New reporting that shows all new available product and all merchandise of 50+ quantity – inventories are updated every 15 minutes
- Comprehensive online Help with answers about available equipment and configuration, pricing and payment, warranties, policies, technical support and more
- Graphically oriented Browse Inventory page to improve product searches and easily find desired equipment
Shop our online superstore ›
- eWEEK features Redemtech and K12’s mission to improve asset recovery in Technology Lesson Learned. The article explains how K12 has been able to save nearly $2 million a year by outsourcing its asset management.
- Barbara Scott, senior practice advisor, IT asset management, is quoted in an Associated Press story on the effects of piracy on small businesses in Software Piracy Fight Makes Enemies. Scott encourages the Business Software Alliance to become a partner with small companies in protecting themselves against piracy.
- Processor features Redemtech President Robert Houghton in back-to-back articles, Going Green in the SME and Options for Equipment Disposal and Recycling focused around the importance of going green and environmental responsibility companies are beginning to promote.
- Inside Supply Management recently included a bylined article on breach prevention submitted by Robert Houghton: Data's End Game: Risk Prevention.
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