Re: Physical HDD destruction

[Clifford Collins <collinsc () FRANKLIN EDU>]

Matt, 

Our contract for paper shredding includes media shredding. The bins look identical but are labelled specifically for 
hard drives, magnetic tape cartridges and CDs/DVDs. The vendor has a truck that visits the campus periodically, empties 
the receptacles and shreds the media on site. One of our facilities folks accompanies the vendor's representative to 
each receptacle and then witnesses the destruction of both paper and media. If you wish to know more, drop me a line. 

Clifford A. Collins 
Information Security Officer 
Franklin University 
201 South Grant Avenue 
Columbus, Ohio 43215 
"Security is a process, not a product" 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Marmet" <matt.marmet () ARMSTRONG EDU> 
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU 
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 2:17:09 PM 
Subject: [SECURITY] Physical HDD destruction 




Good day Everyone, 



Here at Armstrong, we have a couple hundred hard drives that we have to physically disable/destroy. We also have about 
200 hard drives per year that our desktop support staff recover from old machines that need to be destroyed as well. We 
have seen some of the hydraulic electric presses that are enclosed as well as manual presses that are made for this 
type of work. What are other institutions using to destroy HDDs securely and safely? 



Regards, 



Matt 



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