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Data Destruction & Disposal (Physical destruction (Industrial shredder…
Data Destruction & Disposal
Physical destruction
Industrial shredder. You can put a hard drive into one of these device
using a drill or a hammer.
drilling all the way through the platters of a drive
A degausser emits a very strong magnetic field that not only is going to remove all of the data on the platters of the drive,
incinerate the drive, rendering everything on the drive impossible to recover.
Disk Formatting
keep the drive usable but simply destroy all of the data that’s on the drive,
Quick format
Sets up file system, install a boot sector, clear the master file table but data, can be recovered with the right software
Regular Format
override every sector on the drive with zeros
Can't recover data
Hard drive security
always audit and ensure data has been destroyed by 3rd party
File Level overwriting (Sdelete on Windows Sysinternals
Drive wipe removal (DBAN
3rd Party
often used within a large organisaton, then certificate is provided by them