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Re: Equipment Disposition - Disk Drive "Sanitization"
From: Theresa M Rowe <rowe () OAKLAND EDU>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:12:12 -0500
Our sysadmins use these tools for servers and special IT systems. Theresa ---- Original message ----
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:35:53 -0600 From: Brian Eckman <eckman () UMN EDU> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Equipment Disposition - Disk
Drive "Sanitization"
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Sadler, Connie wrote:Can others share what they are doing with regard to
ensuring that
information is properly overwritten before a computer is
transferred or
disposed of? We have an agreement with a third party to destroy all
drives that are
disposed of - and we also have a form that is filled out
when systems
are transferred or "gifted". But we need to tighten this
up. I'd like
each department to take responsibility for this and sign
off on the form
in such a way that they are accountable for information
that gets past
the process. But there is pushback on this (surprise!). Do others have processes that work well for them?(UW - if you are listening, pardon me for speaking for you.) I *really* like the University of Washington's procedures
[1]. They also
have developed their own GNU-licensed tool[2] to clean the
hard drives.
[1] http://www.washington.edu/admin/surplus/computer.html [2] http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/ Brian -- Brian Eckman Security Analyst OIT Security and Assurance University of Minnesota "There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't." ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE
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Current thread:
- Equipment Disposition - Disk Drive "Sanitization" Sadler, Connie (Feb 25)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Equipment Disposition - Disk Drive "Sanitization" Michael_Maloney (Feb 25)
- Re: Equipment Disposition - Disk Drive "Sanitization" Niedens, Travis (Feb 25)
- Re: Equipment Disposition - Disk Drive "Sanitization" David L. Wasley (Feb 25)
- Re: Equipment Disposition - Disk Drive "Sanitization" Brian Eckman (Feb 25)
- Re: Equipment Disposition - Disk Drive "Sanitization" Theresa M Rowe (Feb 25)
- Re: Equipment Disposition - Disk Drive "Sanitization" Theresa M Rowe (Feb 25)