
Data Breach Risk Management: Protecting Your Organization Beyond the Firewall
The Overlooked Data Breach Risk By 2025, most businesses have fortified their defenses against ransomware, phishing scams, and insider threats. Yet, one major vulnerability continues to be underestimated: improperly handled retired IT assets. Backup tapes, servers, and storage arrays may seem harmless once decommissioned, but if not sanitized according to NIST 800-88 standards, they can become the source of catastrophic data breaches. Data breach risk management is no longer limited to firewalls and software patches—it extends to the entire data










