The Shift Towards Structured ITAD in Enterprise Risk Management
No matter your enterprise, IT equipment will at some point become old, underpowered or obsolete. Servers are replaced, laptops are retired and storage drives are decommissioned. For years, this phase was treated as a back-office activity by many organizations, a step to be checked off quickly with minimal oversight. Now that model is insufficient and enterprise leaders have also started to see and acknowledge these kinds of risks more than before. Growing awareness about data security, compliance requirements and environmental accountability is influencing the way organizations retire IT equipment. There was a time when this was considered an informal process, but now it is treated as a strategic discipline. IT asset disposition (ITAD), the organized process that involves retiring, managing and disposing of IT equipment securely and