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Webinar: What 2,000 Global Leaders Reveal about 2025 Data Sanitization Trends

Learn how global enterprises are managing end-of-life data following a year of disruption.

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2024 was relentless with newly passed or enacted privacy and data protection rules. Add rapid AI adoption and related hardware refresh cycles, economic jitters, sustainability mandates, and new storage technology and sanitization standards, and suddenly, the end of your data and asset lifecycles demand a closer look.

So how are your peers—CIOs, CISOs, IT asset managers, data protection officers, and ESG leaders—adapting?

In this session, Blancco’s Maurice Uenuma and Fredrik Forslund unpack findings from our 2025 State of Data Sanitization Report.

You’ll learn how IT and ESG leaders from some of the world’s largest organizations are tackling secure, sustainable, and compliant end-of-life data practices, and where most organizations are still exposed.

What you’ll learn

Get actionable insights from the frontlines of enterprise data security, compliance, and sustainability:

  • Where disposal is still failing: Why outdated device destruction and weak erasure practices still pose major security risks—and how to close the gaps.
  • AI’s regulatory side effects: Whether AI is helping or hindering compliance with global data protection laws.
  • The future of erasure standards: How emerging sanitization standards can help you validate privacy, security, and ESG efforts.
  • ITAD meets ESG: What asset disposal decisions mean for your sustainability disclosures, hardware ROI, and overall ESG story.

Who should watch

  • Chief information security officers (CISOs)
  • Chief information officers (CIOs)
  • Data protection officers
  • Heads of infrastructure and IT operations
  • ESG and corporate sustainability leaders
  • Data governance and compliance managers

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Speakers

Fredrik Forslund

Fredrik Forslund

Vice President and General Manager, International

As Vice President and General Manager, International, Fredrik brings over 20 years of experience in IT security. This includes most recently leading Blancco’s data center and cloud erasure initiatives and, before that, founding SafeIT, a security software company focused on encryption and selective data erasure. With a keen eye for streamlining corporate IT security efficiencies and maintaining compliance with data privacy legislation, he is regarded as a thought leader among customers and partners.

Maurice Uenuma

Maurice Uenuma

Vice President and General Manager, Americas

As Blancco VP and GM for the Americas, Maurice works with an interdisciplinary team to address privacy, security, and sustainability needs of government agencies, enterprises, and device processors. His insights have appeared in Dark Reading, Help Net Security, C4ISRNet, and other industry publications. He’s also held leadership roles at multiple global tech companies and served as workforce management co-chair of NIST’s National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Working Group. A U.S. Naval Academy graduate with nine years in the U.S. Marines, Maurice has a master’s in National Security Studies and is a GIAC-certified Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP).

Why this matters

Managing data at end-of-life isn’t just a security protocol—it’s a strategic imperative tied to:

  • Data privacy regulations (GDPR, CPRA, APPI)
  • ESG reporting (CPRD, ASIC)
  • Hardware lifecycle ROI
  • Stakeholder ESG expectations

Software-based erasure is no longer optional. This webinar shows why.