Educause Security Discussion mailing list archives
Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives??
From: "Basgen, Brian" <bbasgen () PIMA EDU>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:41:50 -0700
We crush our hard drives. We went this route over degaussing, etc, because it is 100% clear when you have finished with the hard drive. :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brian Basgen Information Security Office Pima Community College Office: 520-206-4873 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Sep 26, 2010, at 9:27 PM, SCHALIP, MICHAEL wrote:
Hi Folks.... We're looking for efficiencies (who isn't?) - What process do you follow to securely dispose of old hard drives? Do you sanitize them?...what process/software do you use? Do you allow them to be sold/donated? Do you grind/shred them? Do you degauss them? We are sanitizing them, but we're wondering if it would just be cheaper to use a secure recycling service? (I know DOE/DOD does some of that....depending on the "level"....) Looking forward to hearing what everyone is doing.... Thanks, Michael -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Current thread:
- Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? SCHALIP, MICHAEL (Sep 26)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Alex Keller (Sep 26)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Matthew Gracie (Sep 27)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Roger Safian (Sep 27)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Kevin McKenzie (Sep 27)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Patrick Goggins (Sep 27)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Kevin McKenzie (Sep 27)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? John C. Gale (Sep 27)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Basgen, Brian (Sep 27)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Charles Seitz (Sep 27)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? James Farr '05 (Sep 27)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Valdis Kletnieks (Sep 27)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Alan Amesbury (Sep 27)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Doty, Timothy T. (Sep 28)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Valdis Kletnieks (Sep 28)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound harddrives?? Michael Schalip (Sep 28)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound harddrives?? Valdis Kletnieks (Sep 28)
- Active Domain Architecture in an Academic Environment Feehan, Patrick (Sep 28)
- Re: Active Domain Architecture in an Academic Environment Williams, Charles (Sep 28)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Valdis Kletnieks (Sep 28)
- Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives?? Alex Keller (Sep 26)