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Data Erasure specialists Tabernus are the first of its kind in the commercial data erasure industry to receive CESG Commercial Product Assurance (CPA) certification for their latest version of Tabernus’ data erasure software, Enterprise Erase v7.0.

Makor Solutions announces two major new enhancements to its Tabernus integration of Makor Recycling Manager (MRM) asset recovery tool.Makor Solutions has added Cloud Support and Test Result integration in version 6.5 of Makor Recycling Manager (MRM).

Tabernus will be carrying out a webinar to walk through the updates of the Tabernus Solid State Drive (SSD) Data Erasure Feature.

Tabernus Certified Data Erasure will be attending the International Computer Refurbisher Summit from the 12-13th of November. The event is being hosted by PCRR in the New Orleans, Louisiana.

South African banks have suffered losses of millions of rand due to a major breach of customer card data.

Companies could face fines of £85 million or five percent of their annual global turnover, whichever is greater.This increase is following a European Parliament poll to toughen the proposals for new EU data protection laws.

The cost of a data breach has always been apparent in terms of remediation and consulting costs, however the effect a breach has on a company’s brand identity is tougher to pin down.

Today Tabernus announces the successful testing of its solid-state drive (SSD) data erasure software. The increased adoption of solid-state drives (SSD) and related storage devices are now used on most every new device. From tablets, smart phones, cameras, and now in laptops and enterprise storage, the solid-state technology brings great benefit, but poses its own data erasure challenges because of its unique architecture.

The internet security firm RSA have warned its customers worldwide to avoid using a particular encryption algorithm after concerns it could be unlocked by the US National Security Agency (NSA).

With the EU proposing punitive fines for breaches of European data laws, a leading IT Disposal company is urging organisations to ensure that data is thoroughly removed from all IT equipment before they dispose of it and they warn that many wiping techniques still leave data accessible to those with the appropriate knowledge.