Re: Hard Drive Disposal

[Brian Wheeler <BWheeler () UWYO EDU>]

Chris,

        I happened to run across a link the other day:

http://www.semshred.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/535

        We aren't using this, so I don't have any personal experience
with this.

                Sincerely,

                        Brian K. Wheeler


Network Security Analyst
University of Wyoming





-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Green [mailto:cmgreen () UAB EDU] 
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 2:21 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Hard Drive Disposal

Good day,

Has anyone gone down the path of shredding hard drives before they leave
your custody?  Anyone have industrial shredders to recommend?

Our procedures currently are to degauss them but that's a hard one to
verify
that it worked. We're outsourcing most of our media and paper shredding
but
HDs are a separate fee ($20/drive) and not done onsite.

Thanks,
Chris
-- 
Chris Green
UAB Data Security, 5-0842