The Examiner Asks First
THE CRUNCH · EP 13
TAP TO PAUSE
PAUSED — TAP TO RESUME
Financial institutions live under overlapping data-protection frameworks — GLBA's Safeguards Rule, PCI DSS, SOX — and every one of them follows customer data to the end of the hardware's life. Examiners know it, and hardware disposition has become a standard line of questioning.
The exposure is everywhere: branch refresh cycles, teller and platform workstations, ATMs with internal storage, back-office servers, loan operations equipment. 'We use a recycler' answers the logistics question; it doesn't answer the examiner's question, which is about evidence.
Examiner-ready means serialized destruction records reconciled to asset inventory, documented chain of custody from branch to destruction, NAID AAA-certified processes, and reporting your compliance team can produce on request — across every branch, under one format.
Branch-to-back-office disposition with serialized, examiner-ready reporting nationwide.