Secure Hard Drive Wipe

In the past, reports have surfaced that federal agencies have disposed of surplus information technology (IT) equipment without taking appropriate measures to erase the information stored on the system's media. This can lead to the disclosure of sensitive information, embarrassment to the agency, costly investigations, and other consequences which could have been avoided.     
    
Sharing of media within the government or between government and contractors also presents security issues. For example, IT equipment is sometimes transferred between offices without first removing sensitive files. Diskettes may be used to transfer documents or data files (e.g., for time and attendance reporting) between offices with little concern for the other information which may reside on the diskette.    
    
Employees throw away old diskettes believing that "erasing" the files on the diskette has made the data unretrievable. In reality, however, "erasing" a file simply removes the "pointer" to that file. The pointer tells the computer where the file is physically stored on the disk. Without this pointer, the files will not appear on a directory listing of the diskette's files. This does not mean that the file was removed from the diskette. (Commonly available utility programs can often retrieve information that is presumed "deleted.") Fortunately, with foresight and appropriate planning, these situations can be avoided. We can clean your used hard drives of privileged information at very reasonable prices.   
 
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