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Re: Fully Erase Hard and Flash Drives
From: Rob Milman <rob.milman () SAIT CA>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 16:30:20 +0000
Our team uses a 5-ton press. It’s become a stress relief exercise, similar to the Office Space printer smashing scene. [cid:image004.png@01D18F19.9217E950] Rob Milman Associate Director, Information Security Information Technology Services Southern Alberta Institute of Technology EH Crandell Building, GA 214 1301 – 16 Avenue NW, Calgary AB, T2M 0L4 (Office) 403.774.5401 (Cell) 403.606.3173 rob.milman () sait ca<mailto:rob.milman () sait ca> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> On Behalf Of Todd Watson Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2019 10:27 AM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Fully Erase Hard and Flash Drives Agreed, Kevin. Because of the variations in hardware design, complete deletion of flash drives may not be possible based on the factors to which you alluded. We shred before discarding. Regards, --- Dr. W. Todd Watson, CISSP Information Security Officer University System of Georgia Cybersecurity 706-583-2400 todd () usg edu<mailto:todd () usg edu> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU<mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>> on behalf of Kevin Wilcox <wilcoxkm () APPSTATE EDU<mailto:wilcoxkm () APPSTATE EDU>> Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU<mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>> Date: Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 12:10 PM To: "SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU<mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>" <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU<mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Fully Erase Hard and Flash Drives On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 11:58, White, Ryan <Whitery () bhc edu<mailto:Whitery () bhc edu>> wrote: BHC is looking for a program to erase hard drives and flash drives. What programs do you recommend to completely wipe USB and Hard Drives? We are currently using an open source program when the need arises but that doesn’t erase flash drive and Solid State Drives. Any input would be appreciated! My short answer is, "it depends". My longer answer is, "generally speaking, I'm happy with encrypting a drive with BitLocker and then formatting it or using Secure Erase in the ATA standard". My long answer is "cue folks talking about wear levelling and how you can't trust the drive to *actually* remove that data and what about the areas of the drive where data may be stored that you can't overwrite and a bonded destruction company is the only acceptable method and ..." That's a big ol' can of worms, I hope you're ready to do some fishin'. kmw ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community
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- Fully Erase Hard and Flash Drives White, Ryan (Sep 26)
- Re: Fully Erase Hard and Flash Drives Doug Brooks (Sep 26)
- Re: Fully Erase Hard and Flash Drives Jones, Justin (Sep 26)
- Re: Fully Erase Hard and Flash Drives Jonathon Poling (Sep 26)
- Re: Fully Erase Hard and Flash Drives Kevin Wilcox (Sep 26)
- Re: Fully Erase Hard and Flash Drives Todd Watson (Sep 26)
- Re: Fully Erase Hard and Flash Drives Rob Milman (Sep 26)
- Re: Fully Erase Hard and Flash Drives Hart, Michael (Sep 26)
- Re: Fully Erase Hard and Flash Drives Brad Judy (Sep 30)
- Re: [External] Re: [SECURITY] Fully Erase Hard and Flash Drives Robert Freeman-Day (Sep 30)
- Re: [External] Re: [SECURITY] Fully Erase Hard and Flash Drives John McCabe (Sep 30)
- Re: Fully Erase Hard and Flash Drives Vince Vargiya (OculusIT) (Sep 30)
- Re: Fully Erase Hard and Flash Drives Todd Watson (Sep 26)