Re: Hard Drive Disposal

["Penn, Blake" <pennb () UWW EDU>]

To echo Brian's suggestion, I know that SEM is stuff used widely in
government and other high-security sectors.  But, you might look at their
service too.  Relatively cheap compared to your rates, and I'll doubt you
can find anyone local in Birmingham that could match their thoroughness.
That being said, we still use Killdisk ourselves, but we also have far less
HIPAA stuff to worry about!

http://www.semshred.com/content291.html

__________________________________
Blake Penn, CISSP
Information Security Officer
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
(p) 262-472-5513 (f) 262-472-1285
e-mail: pennb () uww edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Wheeler [mailto:BWheeler () UWYO EDU]
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 3:29 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Hard Drive Disposal

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
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Chris Green
UAB Data Security, 5-0842

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