Transforming ITAD Vendor Relationships: Leveraging Partnerships for Data Security & Compliance

Discover how documenting and following a robust ITAD policy can transform your vendor relationships into strategic partnerships. In this insightful video, ITAG experts Frank Milia and Charles Veprek share how sharing your ITAD policy with vendors creates invaluable checks and balances. Learn how to leverage your ITAD vendors as a tool to ensure compliance with your data destruction policy and enhance data security across your organization.

Failing to adhere to a well-documented data disposal policy puts your company at risk. Many organizations have written ITAD policies buried somewhere, but lack proper adherence and vendor alignment. Sharing your media sanitization and disposal procedures with ITAD partners empowers them to flag any deviations, serving as an extra layer of protection for your sensitive data.

Don’t miss this opportunity to strengthen your ITAD program and vendor relationships. Watch now and visit https://www.itamg.com/itad-program-management to learn more about optimizing your ITAD processes for unparalleled data security and compliance.

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Transcript: “Then after we write down what we say we’re going to do, we do what we wrote down. Because I think a lot of organizations do have written policies somewhere. No one knows where they are, no one’s adhering to them. They don’t share it with their vendor. Right. That’s a common issue that I think that we see is that our customers consider most of their internal processes confidential, and they play things a little close to the vest sometimes where if you have a disposal policy, you should share it with your disposal vendor, because your disposal vendor is going to be the one who’s going to point out if they’re any good. You’re not following your policy. We have agents all around the country contacting us, disposing of equipment with media that’s un-sanitized, not encrypted, or whatever it might be. That’s a good check and balance to your program. But if your disposal vendor doesn’t know what you’re supposed to be doing, they can’t help you do it.”