B&L Associates provides software to automate IT asset management workflows and processes. Their AssetAware software allows companies to centralize management of IT assets from when they go offline through final disposition. It ensures sensitive data on disposed assets remains secure through automated processes to track the chain of custody and destruction of assets. AssetAware also mitigates compliance risks, lowers costs, and provides inventory and audit reporting.

1. B&L Associates
www.bandl.com

2. B&L are experts in automating offline IT asset management
workflow processes, centralizing the management and
reporting of the end to end chain of custody process.
◦ Automating IT Asset Management Workflow for over 35 years
◦ Manage over 20 Million media assets across hundreds of
enterprise organizations

3. 60% of Americans don’t know copiers store images on a hard drive…”
Source: CBS News Special Report 2011
“What some companies overlook is that
the security of this (offline)
equipment can be as important as
the security of the working
equipment still in use”
Source: Data Center Knowledge, November 2013
“55% of C-Suite Executives
would encourage a new data
privacy law that would require
stricter compliance.”
“46% of small business owners
do not have anyone directly
responsible for secure
information destruction.”
Source: Shred-it 2012 Information Security
Tracker

4. SOURCE: Retire-IT tracking data from 2,921 projects of 633 clients HBR.ORG

5.  Using spreadsheets to manually manage multiple assets, sites,
disposition paths, etc.
• Time Consuming
• Decentralized
• Lack of Standard Procedures
• Lack of Audit History
 No chain of custody
◦ Marking assets as ‘retired’ in ITAM solution limits visibility into process
 No method for tracking – pulling hard drives and putting them in
a location until destroyed
◦ Relying on destruction vendor’s COD
 Primary driver: hard drive destruction

6. Manual
Management
of Offline IT
Assets
• Security Breaches and
Negative Exposure
• Inability to Locate Data
Assets
• Failure to Pass
Compliance Audits
• Unable to Validate Hard
Drive Destruction
• High Operational and
Administrative Costs

7.  Simply put, IT Asset Disposition/Disposal, also known
as ITAD, is the process by which organizations remove
IT assets from within their enterprise because of:
◦ Asset decommissioning
◦ Asset replacement or upgrade
 Asset failure
 Asset obsolescence
 There may be many steps, locations, people involved,
etc. in managing assets after they have gone offline…
ITAD manages that process!

8.  Hard drive destruction
 Servers
 Switches
 Laptops
 Tablets
 Mobile phones
 Sensitive and non sensitive data assets

9.  Destroyed, e.g., mechanically shredding a hard drive
◦ Recycled and then disposed
◦ Verify destroyed assets
 Returned to vendor
◦ Avoid chargeback fees
 Resold for investment recovery purposes
◦ Ensure data is wiped properly before being resold

10. You choose: The number of steps, the number of paths,
the assets you want to track, etc.
You get: Every asset follows an automated workflow
Example:
 Assets Registered
 Assets Inventoried
 Assets Signoff
 Assets Destroyed

11.  Completes data security policies and safeguards
sensitive data through disposition and disposal.
 AssetAware allows you to absolutely verify that your
decommissioned IT assets – and the data they contain –
are handled properly throughout the disposition
lifecycle.
 Closed loop system (beginning to end ITAD
management) – manage assets from the moment they
go offline to their final disposition destination

12.  Ensures the sensitive data contained on disposed IT
assets will remain secure through destruction.
 Verify end to end chain of custody and have visibility
into the process
 Completely automates inventory and audit reporting.
 Mitigate risk by preventing a data breach
 Easy to use and it’s a web based application so you can
access the database from virtually any machine

13.  Automate Workflow Processes
 Automate Inventory and Audit Reporting
 Ensure Security of Offline IT Assets through Destruction
 Central Repository on Location of Assets
 Verify End to End chain of custody
 Mitigate Compliance Risks
 Lower Costs

14.  Connect with Us
◦ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/b&l-associates
◦ Company Blog: http://blog.bandl.com/
 Visit our website for more information
◦ www.bandl.com
 Set up a demo
◦ info@bandl.com
 Download an evaluation
◦ http://www.bandl.com/products/assetaware/trials.asp

15.  Contact Information
Michael Kramer
VP, Sales and Marketing
MKramer@bandl.com
508-651-1404 x234
Jennifer Noce
Marketing and Business Development Executive
JNoce@bandl.com
508-651-1404 x261