What the Data Reveals About Germany

A 20-minute look at what’s really happening to data on retired and redeployed devices — with new German-specific findings from Blancco’s 2026 State of Data Sanitization Report.

Nearly 1 in 8 organizations — including in Germany, at 12% — experienced a data leak last year from a redeployed device that still had sensitive data on it. Not a sophisticated attack. A device that was supposed to be handled.

German organizations also carry one of the heaviest compliance loads in Europe, managing an average of 2.1 overlapping frameworks — BSI, GDPR, BDSG, CSRD, and more — which makes proving what happened to a device just as important as erasing it in the first place.

Blancco’s data erasure software closes that gap: permanently, verifiably making data unrecoverable, with a certificate to prove it — every device secure, audit-ready, and safe to redeploy, resell, or reuse. In fact, 77% of German organizations already prefer reuse over destruction, once they can trust the data is truly gone.

Join Blancco and our guest speaker, Markus Mueller from IBM, to see what the data shows, and what it means for your security program.

What you’ll learn

• Why data breaches from redeployed devices keep happening, even at highly regulated organizations
• What Germany’s compliance landscape means for proving — not just doing — secure erasure
• How certified erasure lets you strengthen security and recover device value, without slowing operations
• Why AI adoption is quietly growing your ROT data risk — and what to do about it

Can’t attend live on October 20th? Don’t worry! Register below and you’ll be sent the on-demand link after the webinar to watch at your leisure.

Meet our speakers 

Tanja Balazic Managing Director, Blancco Germany

Martin Kaiser Senior Sales Manager, Blancco Germany

Markus Mueller Technology Sales TSS System HW and Solutions, IBM