We’ve outlined some of the best practices below: Methods for Data ErasureĮspecially in the case of SSDs, no one method is guaranteed to erase data completely every time every method comes with some risks. The methodology behind your enterprise data security procedure will be the single greatest defense against malicious data collection once your hard drives are disposed of, destroyed, or recycled. Our previous article on storage devices should help with that, if needed. In order to understand how to properly deal with your storage assets, and implement sufficient enterprise data security procedures, it’s important to first understand generally how they work.

HDDs, however, are generally far easier to sanitize. Unfortunately, not all hard drives are created equal SSDs in particular pose a unique challenge in data erasure, and currently there is no standard method for securely deleting data from Solid State devices. So how do you make sure that your drives are actually erased?

Formatting a drive doesn’t (always) do it either.

Did you know? Hitting delete doesn’t actually erase a file from hard drive, nor does dumping your recycling bin destroy the information on it.

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