Protect the security and privacy of your confidential data. Call ARS today to sanitize your company hard drives. ARS exceeds the government’s security requirements of DOD (Department of Defense)  5520.22-M, the most prevalent standard for cleaning a hard drive.

 

Disk Sanitization It's a wise precaution to remove sensitive personal and or business data from computer hard drive disks before the disks are either transferred from one area to another, sold, recycled or discarded.

The process is referred to as disk sanitizing, erasing, cleaning, purging, or wiping. The method you choose to sanitize a disk should depend on the security requirements of your organization. erase hard drive, disk wipe, disk erase, data destruction, erase data, data recovery erase, raid data erase, hard drive sanitization, dod format

Removing (deleting) a file actually only removes the pointer to the file. Common utilities can often recover deleted files, so the data may still be recoverable. Four techniques available for disk sanitization are:

• Overwriting

• DOD format

• Degaussing

• Physical Destruction

►Overwriting a disk by using the format command is enough for some purposes because it reduces the chance that any data can be recovered from the disk. However, this will only erase data and the disk can potentially be accessed by someone with enough expertise, determination, or money.

►DOD formatting is a competent form of data destruction and complies with the U.S. Department of Defense 5220.22-M standard for disk-sanitization. This maximum protection via software solution gives a much stronger  likelihood that any personal information that was stored on your computer doesn't fall into the wrong hands.

►Degaussing is a process of hard drive sanitization whereby the media are erased, (i.e., returned to a zero state). Degaussing (demagnetizing) reduces the magnetic flux to virtual zero by applying a reverse magnetizing field. Properly applied, degaussing renders any previously stored data on magnetic media unreadable by keyboard or laboratory attack.

►Physical Destruction of hard drives should be implemented when they contain highly secure information, are defective or cannot be economically repaired or sanitized for reuse. Shredding is the preferred method for physical destruction.

Before you let go of that disk, have the peace of mind that your secure data has been thoroughly erased. ARS provides safe and secure disk drive sterilization services along with the highest security standards. Call us today!

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