Erase, report, audit.
Managing every IT asset and verifying secure data erasure to adhere to data retention policies and/or regulatory requirements is a challenge for every IT professional. With Blancco Management Console, you can now manage all data erasure licenses, create and modify users and have complete visibility of erasure activities. And, your organization will benefit from a centralized point of data management control with 100% certified, tamper-proof audit reports.
Key Benefits of Blancco Management Console:
- Centralized data management reporting solution to store and manage data erasure reports across every IT asset
- Monitor and control ongoing data erasures
- Flexible erasure deployment through on-premise or cloud
- Full visibility of hardware & erasure details for customized reporting
- Fully compatible with all Blancco data erasure software to streamline your data lifecycle management policies
- Produces a 100% certified data erasure and tamper-proof audit trail
Ensures compliance with industry standards and regulations, including PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, ISO 27001, ISO 27040 and GDPR
Centralize User and Group Management
Tailor Management Console to meet your organization’s unique needs.
- Set up users and groups to match your corporate structure
- Share and assign licenses to groups or individual users from a central pool
- Authenticate users against Active Directory
- Fully customizable roles with granular control over authorities
Get your FREE Data Erasure & Diagnostics Trial for ITADs
Erase 100% of sensitive data to increase resale value.
There are two versions of Blancco Management Console available – on-premise and cloud-based versions. Read on to learn the differences between the two, and determine which version is right for your organization.
On-Premise Data Erasure Tools and Management
Using web service interfaces (REST APIs), your organization can seamlessly integrate and automate data erasure processes with your existing AMS/ERP systems for easy reporting. On-premise deployment provides your organization with remote data management to control your data erasure processes remotely.
Cloud-Based Data Erasure Services and Management
Benefit from anytime, anywhere cloud-based portal access to perform secure erasure, view all data erasure licenses, create and modify users, monitor activities and collect 100% certified, tamper-proof audit reports. The question of how to erase data securely from multiple locations is now easily answered.
Extended Asset Management Integration
Two-Way Communication consists of three components: Blancco Drive Eraser, Blancco Management Console and your asset management system (AMS).
Two-Way Communication enables your AMS to request the following from Blancco Management Console and Blancco Drive Eraser:
- Custom fields
- Information on disks
- Asset reports
- Automated reset and shutdown
- And specific erasure options, including your choice of erasure standard.
Two-Way Communication also reduces the number of necessary operator inputs, lessening the likelihood for human error.
To learn more about Blancco Two-Way Communication, contact us today, or visit support.blancco.com.
Blancco provides many Management Console capabilities specific to Two-Way Communication. This solution provides:
- Web service interfaces (REST API) for seamless integration with existing AMS/ERP systems
- Input into the erasure process with integration with asset management system
- Automation of process flow
- Reduced number of manual operator choices and inputs
- Information on custom fields
- Information on disks
- Ability to fetch assets from Drive Eraser or reset and shutdown Drive Eraser remotely
Blancco Management Console – Onsite vs. Cloud
Explore the differences between our on-premise and cloud solutions in the following graph.
| On-Premise | Cloud | |
| Live Management/Monitoring of Connected Blancco Drive Eraser Clients | Yes | No |
| Asset Management API Integration | Yes | No |
| Advanced Reporting Statistics / Home Page Widget | Yes | Yes |
| Advanced Customer Report Views | Yes | Yes |
| HASP License Entitlement Generation | No | Yes |
| Blancco Managed Hosting | No | Yes |
Key Features
Erase to 25+ Different Standards
Fast and Secure Erasure
Flexible and User-Friendly Interface
Comprehensive Reporting
Blancco Management Console On-Premise Technical Specifications
- Web service interfaces (REST API) for seamless integration with existing AMS/ERP systems
- Full automation requiring minimum user interaction
- AD integration for user authentication
- Erasure statistics to identify performance issues across all assets
- Extensive database support
- Built in user level such as Admin, Manager and User
- User role management including granular control over erasure and reporting authorities
- Built-in erasure license management
- Groups and subgroups can also be created for report sharing and license assignment
- Operator throughput widget allows greater insight into staff performance
- Full traceability with detailed information including action logs for each individual report
- Reports available in CSV, PDF and XML formats
- Fast and user friendly report searching (including search by date)
- Add user-created reports for non-functioning assets
- Automatic report fetching with live management
- Offers high availability support
- Comprehensive data erasure reports and statistics
- Full hardware and software details recorded
- Easy report importing, exporting, editing, emailing and validating
- Back up incoming reports directly to local filesystem
- Allows for archiving of reports
- Dual-core processor or better
- 4 GB RAM or better
- Network interface card
- Display
- Keyboard and mouse
- Free USB port
- Java Runtime Environment (OS independent)
- Tamper-proof reporting with secure digital signatures
- Comprehensive asset and chain of custody tracking
- Full transparency of the erasure process
- English
- French
- German
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Chinese
- Spanish
Please ask your Blancco sales representative for details.
Blancco Management Console - Cloud Technical Specifications
- Complete cloud-hosted service for managing the data erasure process
- Online access to a central database with minimum effort in report distribution
- Erasure statistics to identify performance issues across all assets
- Full compatibility with all Blancco Data Eraser software
- Full hardware and erasure details available
- Easy user management and global distribution of user rights
- Groups and subgroups can also be created for report sharing and license assignment
- Operator throughput widget allows greater insight into staff performance
- Comprehensive reports include details such as device name and model, IMEI code, and storage capacity
- Reports can be exported as PDF, XML and CSV
- Custom report views available
- Utilizes Elasticsearch to allow scaling and faster searches for reports
- Custom fields (such as customer name and asset ID) can be added to reports
- Back up incoming reports directly to local file system
- User-friendly report browsing and filtering features
- Comprehensive statistics available
- Simple report distribution options
- Full transparency of both diagnostics and erasure processes ensures a gapless audit trail
- English
- French
- German
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Chinese
- Spanish
Please ask your Blancco sales representative for details.
Learn More about Centralized Data Erasure
Get your FREE Data Erasure & Diagnostics Trial for ITADs
 | Enterprise Data Erasure: Your Last Line of Defense |
 | Ultimate Guide to Data Retention |