{"id":230,"date":"2022-04-12T04:12:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T04:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2022-04-12T04:12:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T04:12:18","slug":"is-it-safe-to-ship-old-smart-devices-for-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/is-it-safe-to-ship-old-smart-devices-for-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Safe to Ship Old Smart Devices for Destruction?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Did the pandemic open the doors to Pandora\u2019s Box when remote workers had to securely destroy their devices? In 2020, while the number of data breaches <a href=\"https:\/\/tdwi.org\/articles\/2021\/04\/02\/u.s.-data-breaches-dropped-by-30-percent-in-2020.aspx\">went down by 30%, the cost of a breach increased<\/a>. In 2021, there were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/privacy\/record-number-of-data-breaches-reported-in-2021-new-report-says\/\">a record number of breaches increasing by 68% year over year.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What Caused the Record Breaking Cyber Attacks in 2021?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The challenges of COVID with remote working made it virtually impossible for IT departments to keep tabs on their smart devices and where they went after an employee was issued a new device.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Kyle Marks, CEO of Retire IT and IT Central \u201cAny program lacking organizational accountability and a simple, well-designed, unambiguous protocol is in no one\u2019s best interest and likely to fail.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marks goes on to say, \u201cit\u2019s neither effective nor profitable for a program to depend on employees who may have only been given a general or loose directive to ship IT assets to a preferred ITAD service provider.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>So what can YOUR company do?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Put in place the proper protocol to ship smart devices for safe destruction through a NAID-certified provider like Ship n Destroy<\/li><li>Educate your employees how to use it.<\/li><li>Explain the shipping process, how it gets processed and how to protect sensitive data.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Let Ship n Destroy Help<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact us and we\u2019ll be happy to help you set up a plan for your employees to securely destroy old devices with our easy ship n destroy service. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ready to Get Started?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Call Ship n Destroy at 877-863-3003 to schedule a time to review some solutions that would be the perfect fit for your company. Visit our website to learn more <a href=\"https:\/\/shipndestroy.com\">https:\/\/shipndestroy.com<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did the pandemic open the doors to Pandora\u2019s Box when remote workers had to securely destroy their devices? In 2020, while the number of data breaches went down by 30%, the cost of a breach increased. In 2021, there were a record number of breaches increasing by 68% year over year.\u00a0 What Caused the Record &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/is-it-safe-to-ship-old-smart-devices-for-destruction\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}