At the conclusion of a company's network upgrade project, the project manager must retire several legacy servers that are no longer in use. Which of the following is the most crucial factor to address when planning the hardware decommissioning?
Notifying relevant stakeholders about the removal of the hardware.
Ensuring sensitive data is erased from the servers to prevent data breaches.
Moving the servers to a storage facility for potential future use.
Donating the servers to a nonprofit organization without conducting data removal.
When decommissioning hardware, it is essential to ensure that sensitive data is properly erased from the servers to prevent potential data breaches. Data remnants on decommissioned hardware can lead to unauthorized access and compromise of confidential information. Simply moving the servers to storage or donating them without data removal does not mitigate the risk of data exposure. Notifying stakeholders about hardware removal is important but does not address the critical issue of data security during decommissioning.
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