Following recent high profile data loss incidents, companies are beginning to follow the example set by government departments in hard disk accounting and disposal. Delegates attending Security Management Stage 1 (17 – 28 November 2008) are taught during the programme’s Information and IT Security Workshop that all hard drives in a business should be accounted for and that they should be disposed of in one (or a combination) of the following ways:- Degaussing
- Data overwrite using a special program designed and approved for this purpose
- Disintegration
- Incineration to 1500 degrees Celsius
With the amount of data that amasses on computer hard drives virtually all drives in a business could be classified at least “confidential”. And an often poorly appreciated fact is that drives usually still contain any data that has been deleted. Even reformatting does not completely erase data.
For a report on hard drive disintegration click on the link below:
http://www.csoonline.com/article/448123/Data_Breaches_Spark_Hard_Drive_Shredding_Boom?page=1
For more on Security Management Stage 1 click below:
http://www.arc-tc.com/pages/university_acredited_sm.asp#sm1
To learn more about the fill list of topics covered in the Information and IT Security Workshop contact Janet.
