01 / WHOWho writes and owns this content
Every article, field guide, state and metro brief, Crunch episode, and Straight Answers entry on this hub is researched, written, and published under the editorial ownership of Brian Boynton, Strategic Account Executive at CyberCrunch. Brian works with ITAD buyers, compliance teams, and assessors daily; the hub exists because the same questions come up in those conversations again and again, and most of the answers available online are either vendor puffery or legal boilerplate. Editorial pages carry his byline and structured-data authorship; the interactive tools, service-overview videos, and event pages are product and utility surfaces and are intentionally unbylined.
The publisher is CyberCrunch, an R2v3, NAID AAA, RIOS, and PA DEP certified IT asset disposition and secure data destruction company headquartered in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. That's a disclosure, not a footnote: this is an educational resource published by a company that sells ITAD services. We think the content stands on its own — the compliance maps, the standards explainers, the templates — but you should read it knowing who wrote it and why. Where CyberCrunch's own credentials are relevant to a topic (certifications, for instance), we say so plainly, including what we don't hold.
02 / SOURCINGHow legal and regulatory claims are sourced
Compliance content is held to a primary-source standard. Claims about statutes, regulations, standards, penalties, and enforcement actions are verified against the authoritative text or the issuing body's own publications — state codes and agency sites for disposal and breach-notification law, NIST publications for the 800-88 and 800-171 material, the certification bodies' own standards and directories for R2v3, e-Stewards, and NAID AAA, and regulators' orders and press releases (SEC, OCC, ICO) for the enforcement cases we cite. Where a specific figure can't be confirmed against an authoritative source, we soften it to accurate non-specific language rather than assert it.
Two honest limits. First, none of this is legal advice — every legal and compliance page carries a disclaimer saying so, and it means it: laws change, interpretations differ, and your counsel's read of your situation beats our general summary every time. Second, we summarize; the primary sources control. Where we link a statute or a standard, the link is the authority and our prose is the plain-English gloss.
03 / REVIEWWhen pages are reviewed and updated
The hub is re-audited as a whole on every site update: links, structured data, and — for compliance pages — the standing dated facts (certification names and versions, program deadlines, standard revisions). The “as of” date in each legal page's disclaimer reflects the most recent review, and the Updated or Last reviewed date on an article or guide changes only when its content materially changed — we don't refresh dates to look current. When a standard genuinely moves (as NIST SP 800-88 did with Revision 2 in September 2025), we update every page that asserted the old version as current, and we say what changed.
04 / CORRECTIONSCorrections policy
If you find an error — a misread statute, a stale figure, a broken claim, anything — email brianb@ccrcyber.com. Substantiated corrections are fixed on the page itself, the page's review date is updated, and material corrections are noted in the text. We'd genuinely rather hear about it than have it sit there wrong; the whole value of a resource like this is that it can be trusted, and that's earned one fixed error at a time.
05 / THE HUBWhat this site is — and isn't
promo.ccrcyber.com is CyberCrunch's educational resource hub: six sections — the Video Library, Articles & Compliance Briefs, The Crunch, Field Guides, The Workbench, and Straight Answers — plus free templates and downloads. It is deliberately separate from ccrcyber.com, the commercial site: this side teaches, that side sells. The tools and templates here are free, most without so much as an email, because the reader we're writing for — the person who just inherited “figure out what to do with the old laptops” — deserves a straight answer before anyone asks them to buy anything.