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The vulnerability of information stored on hard drives has always been recognized as a security risk. Think of all the information that could be on the PC’s hard drive: financial information, sales reports, client and personnel files and sensitive market and product information, in fact information that could be a security risk or commercially damaging if it got in to the wrong hands.

It is simply not enough to delete, reformat or overwrite sensitive information and as a result, a number of standards have been adopted by governments and organisations throughout the world for the effective disposal of hard drives.
Regulatory Compliance
Strict industry standards & government regulations are in place that force organizations to mitigate the risk of unauthorised exposure of confidential corporate &
government data. These regulations include HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act); FACTA (The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003); GLB (Gramm-Leach Bliley); Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOx); & Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS).

NSA
A two step process has also been set out by the National Security Agency (NSA) and Central Security Service (CSS) for the disposal of magnetic storage devices, including hard drives.

They recommend that hard drives are sanitized (erased) with a degausser prior to the physical destruction of the hard drive itself. It is this standard that all government agencies must adhere to and is now recognized by most organizations as the most effective and fool-proof way of disposing of hard drives
effectively and securely.

Security of data is also a legal requirement under the UK’s Data Protection Act 1998, ensuring the complete removal of all data from redundant equipment is essential to maintain the security and integrity of data. In addition, many standards insist that the process of data destruction is fully traceable. Using a degausser to sanitise media provides a fully auditable procedure.

The Importance of Data Security