Data Wipe
Are you selling or donating a personal or company PC?
Confidential information often resides on the disk drives of computers. The fastest growing exposure of company confidential information as well as employee personal information comes from used disk drives.
IDCI (Inadvertent Disclosure of Confidential Information) is common, though many companies are not aware of potential IDCI weaknesses it is probably the biggest back door security threat most companies endure.
Things such as confidential documents, employee medical records, passwords, company address books, and credit card numbers are just a few of the sensitive documents residing on the computers of most employees. Simple erasing or formatting of disk drives is not sufficient to completely eradicate all information from disk drives.Did You Know?
- Complete restoration of personal and confidential data can be done to hard drives that have been formatted, and even re-installed with new or different operating systems.
- Hard drive Wiping requires at least 12-24 hours to complete.
Benefits
- Eliminate the possibility of data being retrieved from a computer system that is being sold, donated or recycled.
Tips
- Make sure there is no data on the drive you want wiped. Once we wipe the drive there is no way to recover the data!
