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Why secure erase?

Don't Just Delete or Format! Securely Erase & Be Safe!

Electronically stored information (ESI) has become the priority #1 asset of all companies. Considering the quick turnover of digital assets, your business or confidential data can easily fall into the wrong hands without proper data sanitization. When you reallocate, sell, give away, or dispose of your redundant IT devices you need to make sure that all your data was irrevocably erased. When data is simply deleted or drive is formatted, it is just no longer accessible by the operating system. Even if you don’t see the files and folders, they can still be on your storage device and can still be accessed by professionals using data recovery tools. To guarantee that your data is irrevocably erased, and a recovery will never be possible, not even when using a specialized software, secure erasure with internationally accepted standards is what you should ask for.

Which benefits will secure erasure bring you?

  • Meeting the regulatory compliance requirements

    GDPR, ISO 27001, and HIPAA oblige data holders to meet some legal requirements. For example, right to be forgotten concept in GDPR obliges data holders to anonymize or securely erase personal data when they are no longer necessary for the purpose an organization originally collected or processed it.

  • Protection from the Risk of Data Leakage

    The danger of exposing sensitive data due to skyrocketed increase at number and cost of cyberattacks and data breaches requires companies to securely erase their storage devices.

  • Minimizing environmental Impact

    Electronic disposals contain many toxic materials such as arsenic and mercury. Physical destruction of the storage media can be harmful to the environment by leaving shredded assets behind.

  • Economic gain

    Electronic devices are expensive and also contain rare and important minerals such as cobalt and neodymium. For lowering technology costs and environmental impact, secure erase is the preferable option rather than simply shredding and wasting resources.