Data sanitization allows organizations to permanently and irreversibly remove or destroy data on memory devices. Data cannot be recovered from a device that has been sanitized. Learn how data sanitization can benefit your business.
IT teams need to guard their infrastructure from outside attack, but they must also look at software and hardware that come from third-party suppliers and vendor partners—even trusted ones. This is particularly true for portable storage devices such as USBs and external or removable drives. Here’s how secure data erasure can help. … Read More
Following the loss of 18 hard drives destined for scrap, one local government revised its IT asset disposal procedures to protect against future data leaks. In doing so, they overcame several drawbacks to relying only on physical destruction methods to achieve data sanitization. … Read More
If data protection is so critical, what keeps enterprises from completely removing data from drives and devices when it’s no longer needed? In this post, the second in a two-part series, we address five more data sanitization myths common to large and small enterprises alike. These include beliefs about erasing advanced SSDs, T2 Macs, sanitization in live environments, server downtime, and the cost of data sanitization. Even if you think … Read More
If data protection is so critical, what keeps enterprises from completely removing data from drives and devices when it’s no longer needed? In this two-part post, we address 10 data sanitization myths. The five below are some of the most common, and they sabotage the data protection efforts of small businesses and large enterprises alike. Any of these can leave data behind, even if you think you’ve got solid data … Read More
Drives that have been used in a highly protected and confidential information system will need to be retired eventually, even if the data on those drives gets transferred to another storage device. In this situation, making stored data permanently inaccessible will be critical during the decommissioning process. How do you make sure your highly sensitive data is completely destroyed at end-of life? We take a look at physical destruction methods … Read More
