How Data Destruction Plays an Important Role in Ambiguity of a Company

Date Published: 01st March 2011 Republish this article
Data destruction is a complete removal of data from all types of computer media, so that it can under no circumstances be accessed at a later date. This process ensures that the data is physically and irretrievably removed from media including hard drives, tape drives, and CDs. This service provides peace of mind that your sensitive data stored on a failed hard drive will not fall into the wrong hands.
But when you think about the data destruction the first thing that arises in your mind is the ambiguity or the secrecy of your company which is valid because it becomes an open race of hackers and identity theft for destroying the data of any live company. When a person takes someone's personal information and assumes their identity, this is called identity theft. And those are the troubles where even many successful companies are also troubling.
What should be done that time?
? Choose the honorable or reliable Company for your data to wipe safely.
? Collect all Information about record of that company.
? All latest technologies should have that company.
? Specialized Certification is must.
? Choose Professional Service provider.
Now a day, shredding is done with latest technology known as disk master or disk destruction for hardware. Many software products are available in the market, which will help to destroy data from the hard drives of your computer. Industrial tape and hard drive destroyer machines will completely destroy the data from both HDD and paper.
A very strapping technique used by specialists is data purging. It removes media and data from a storage device with the intent that the data can never be recovered. This is generally completed before any computer is released into the environment.
Degaussing is another way to destroy unwanted data from your storage. For degauss many software are used in market. Some products are DoD 5220.22-M, AFSSI-5020, AR 380-19, RCMP TSSIT OPS-II, HMG IS5, VSITR and GOST R 50739-95 etc.

Data sanitization is another technique to overwrite the existed data and remove that permanently. In other words a data sanitization method is the specific way in which a data destruction program overwrites the data on a hard drive or other storage device.

So if you are thinking about recycling of your Desktops and other equipments then you have need to data erasure firstly and keep these things which we discussed before.