Rewriting your data, even rewriting it several times, is not a completely secure solution.
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November 3, 2017 Data Security
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Why Data Destruction Should Be Treated With Respect
October 20, 2017 Data Security, Physical Destruction
Anybody who is aware of the work of the late Terry Pratchett will know that his books had a level of almost unsurpassed surrealism.
Read MoreErase, encrypt, degauss and destroy – How to avoid single points of failure
October 17, 2017 Data Security
If there is one universal truth in the cybersecurity world, it is that organizations should never depend on a single point of failure.
Read MoreReminder: Any hard drive not properly destroyed puts you at risk
September 11, 2017 Data Security
The hard disk destruction process tends to get pushed to the back burner among many businesses.
Read MoreBy Megan Squire, Professor of Computing Sciences, Elon University. The weak spots are at the ends. ThamKC/Shutterstock.com Government officials continue to seek technology companies’ help fighting terrorism and crime. But the most commonly proposed solution would severely limit regular people’s ability to communicate securely online. And it ignores the fact that governments have other ways […]
Read MoreHard Drive Shredders
August 16, 2017 Data Security, hard drive shredders
5 considerations for cloud providers that want to handle data destruction
August 15, 2017 Data Security
Cloud computing creates new challenges for data destruction, and cloud providers have a unique opportunity to give themselves a competitive edge in this changing landscape.
Read MorePolitics aside, government data theft case highlights importance of proper disk destruction
August 4, 2017 Data Security
The phenomena of shred days – events where government agencies or nonprofits bring out shredders to help members of the community properly dispose of sensitive documents – has changed in light of our increasingly digital world.
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The big data revolution has come to many industries, but the rise of analytics creates an operational climate in which companies must become much more aware of how their information moves through networks and where it ends up when hardware reaches its end-of-service-life date.
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Hard disk drives are resilient, reliable storage devices that consumers and businesses can trust to safely contain their information for an extended period of time.
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