Monday, October 17, 2011

The Need For Hard Drive Destruction

By Bonnie Duran


At present, information transmittal is as effortless as clicking a mouse. It is therefore imperative to develop safer means to dispose and destroy sensitive and confidential information, either business or personal in nature. A good way to achieve that is through the use of a reliable hard drive destruction method.

Nowadays, identity theft from improper data storage disposal has made companies vulnerable. This is especially for those that process sensitive and confidential personal data. Hence the emergence in the market of companies offering services to ensure absolute data destruction.

Nowadays, several methods of disposing information storage are available in the market. Widely used include data erasure, crushing and degaussing, and shredding. Data erasure is to simply clear out data by using a software or program, normally a configured in house software under license of the data disposal companies.

Currently, several ways of disposing data storage are being offered by some companies. It may be well soon that standardization will be on its way for these procedures. The most popular include data erasure, shredding, crushing and degaussing.

Shredding is among the most universal accepted techniques per endorsement of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It is done by actually shredding the storage data into minuscule bits through the employ of specialized machines. This is done in such a way as to make its recreation to its original make impossible.

As information transfer technology, system upgrades, and demands for safer modes of ensuring data protection evolve, so will methods of hard drive destruction.




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