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IBM’s 2025 Breach Data Puts ITAD Providers Inside the Vendor-Risk Perimeter

The global average breach cost at $4.44 million, according to IBM. Healthcare leads all industries at $7.42 million, followed by financial services at $5.56 million, industrial at $5.00 million, energy at $4.83 million, and technology at $4.79 million. Supply-chain compromise, where ITAD sists, ranks as the second-costliest attack vector at $4.91 million per incident, trailing only malicious insider incidents at $4.92 million. Phishing averages $4.80 million and stolen credentials $4.67 million. For ITAD providers, the supply-chain figure is the number that matters. Enterprise procurement teams now treat disposition vendors as part of the same risk perimeter as any other third party with access to sensitive data. Governance maturity, documentation quality, and audit readiness are becoming primary evaluation criteria, alongside processing capacity and recovery rates. Providers serving healthcare and financial services face buyers with the highest breach-cost exposure and the strongest incentive to demand governance-mature partners.

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Markets/Corporate: What Intel’s blockbuster quarter means for ITAD

Apr 27, 2026

Intel’s first-quarter 2026 earnings report landed with a force few on Wall Street anticipated. Revenue came in at $13.58 billion against expectations of $12.42 billion. Adjusted earnings per share reached $0.29, versus a consensus estimate of just $0.01. The stock briefly hit an all-time high in after-hours trading, surpassing its dot-com era peak. For a company that had spent the better part of two years in restructuring mode, it was a remarkable reversal.

Client Note: HPE Downgrade Highlights Demand Fragility and Uneven AI Monetization

Apr 20, 2026

In our latest client note, we connect data from HPE’s downgrade, Morgan Stanley’s sector-wide hardware warning, and HPE’s own earnings disclosures to five specific operational implications for End-Of-Life service providers, including why linear volume planning is now a liability, where residual value assumptions need to be revised downward, and what phased decommissioning means for how services are structured going forward.

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