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Re: secure disposal of backup tapes
From: Ryan Chow <rynchow () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 21:49:58 +1100
How extreme you go with the disposal of the tapes goes with the value of the data on them and the risk of disclosure. At the lowest end would be degaussing to physical destruction of the media at the extreme. If it was only a small amount of tapes I would remove the tape from the cassette and then run them through a shredder and mixing them all together. Good luck finding the right pieces. However given the density of tape media there is a minimum size of a length of tape that would still potentially contain recoverable information. If this is not a once off situation I would recommend that a process be created that ensured for every tape used and destroyed by the organisation is accounted for. That is the creation of a clear audit trail from initial usage to its subsequent disposal. Such a process ensures that the risk of unauthorised disclosure of information from the backups is reduced. Ryan. On 22/11/05, Murad Talukdar <talukdar_m () subway com> wrote:
Hi I wanted to get some ideas from everyone for secure disposal of DDS/TRAVAN/DLT backup tapes. How do you burn yours? Kind Regards Murad Talukdar
Current thread:
- secure disposal of backup tapes Murad Talukdar (Nov 22)
- Re: secure disposal of backup tapes John R. Dennison (Nov 23)
- Re: secure disposal of backup tapes Saqib Ali (Nov 23)
- RE: secure disposal of backup tapes David Gillett (Nov 24)
- Re: secure disposal of backup tapes Gaddis, Jeremy L. (Nov 23)
- RE: secure disposal of backup tapes Aditya Deshmukh (Nov 24)
- Re: secure disposal of backup tapes Jacob Bresciani (Nov 24)
- Re: secure disposal of backup tapes Ryan Chow (Nov 28)
- RE: secure disposal of backup tapes Corey Watts-Jones (Nov 30)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: secure disposal of backup tapes Steven Jones (Nov 23)
- RE: secure disposal of backup tapes Glenn English (Nov 24)
- Re: secure disposal of backup tapes Jacob Bresciani (Nov 25)
- RE: secure disposal of backup tapes oystein (Nov 24)
- RE: secure disposal of backup tapes Glenn English (Nov 24)
- Re: secure disposal of backup tapes murad (Nov 24)
- Re: secure disposal of backup tapes Neksus (Nov 24)
- RE: secure disposal of backup tapes Beauford, Jason (Nov 24)
- RE: secure disposal of backup tapes Debra Haslam (Nov 25)
- Re: secure disposal of backup tapes murad (Nov 25)
(Thread continues...)
- Re: secure disposal of backup tapes John R. Dennison (Nov 23)