Hard Disk Drive Sanitation & Destruction

Sarbanes-Oxley, GLB, FACTA, HIPAA and other Regulatory Compliance

Failing to properly destroy discarded business, proprietary, patient, customer, credit or other sensitive information could create both legal and public relations nightmares.

The National Association of Information Destruction (NAID) recommends that information destruction be outsourced to a professional firm. Outsourcing allows firms and their staff to concentrate on their core competencies. By taking appropriate measures, companies can avoid incidents.

Computer Warehouse Plus offers as part of a common sense, comprehensive approach to endpoint data security, data destruction, which provides assurance that sensitive data can't be misused – ever.

Your business and personal identity is on your hard drive and deleting files or formatting does not remove that information!

The data erasure and destruction process is referred to in numerous ways such as: disk sanitizing, erasing, DOD formatting, cleaning, purging, or wiping. The method you choose to sanitize a disk should depend on the security requirements of your organization.

Why sanitize your deleted files? Because even though files may appear to be deleted they can easily be undeleted without your authorization or knowledge. Even if the deleted file space has been overwritten by a different file, it's still possible to recover the original deleted file.

Secure services are also available:

Chain of custody signature forms
Secure lockbox pick-up
Secure Transporation
Digital Data of Serial Numbers

The destruction of hard drive data has to be carried out in such a way as to ensure that data from which individuals, customers and proprietary business information can be identified, can't fall into the wrong hands. This must be done before the hard drives are either transferred from one area to another, sold, recycled or discarded.

Some examples of confidential information

Correspondence or other documents which reveal the contact details or any financial details of a named living person or business unless permission has been given to circulate the details.
Correspondence or other documents which reveal personal details or pass comments on a named living person or business
Staff personnel records
Discipline records
Student records
Grant applications
Job applications
Interview notes
Admissions records
Redundancy records
Sick pay records
Proprietary information
Income tax and National Insurance returns
Wages and salary records
Health records
Medical records
Any record which, if made public before a certain period, may breach commercial confidentiality e.g.
Contracts
Tenders
Purchasing records
Maintenance records
Insurance records
Unpublished accounting records
Any record which may breach intellectual property rights e.g.
Customer base and patient records

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Computer Warehouse Plus provides an audit and certificate of data destruction for your records. We can even establish a secure chain of command of the items from your facility to ours.

We offer several techniques which are HIPAA compliant:

DOD Drive Format (Department of Defense Quality Format)
Drive Degaussing (Removal of Data via Magnetic Device)
Drive DESTRUCTION (Actual Shredding of the Drive)
Combination Degaussing and Shredding

In these instances, our hard drive data destruction services leave an unreadable drive and eliminate any chance of your data being retrieved or stolen. Even by professionals!

Call us today for a free consultation. Telephone: 1-877-277-3879

Computer Warehouse Plus provides an audit and certificate of data destruction for your records. We can even establish a secure chain of command of the items from your facility to ours.

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