Re: Equipment Disposition - Disk Drive "Sanitization"

[Theresa M Rowe <rowe () OAKLAND EDU>]

Our sysadmins use these tools for servers and special IT
systems.
Theresa

---- Original message ----
> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:35:53 -0600
> From: Brian Eckman <eckman () UMN EDU>
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Equipment Disposition - Disk
Drive "Sanitization"
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
>
> Sadler, Connie wrote:
> > Can others share what they are doing with regard to
ensuring that
> > information is properly overwritten before a computer is
transferred or
> > disposed of?
> >
> > We have an agreement with a third party to destroy all
drives that are
> > disposed of - and we also have a form that is filled out
when systems
> > are transferred or "gifted". But we need to tighten this
up. I'd like
> > each department to take responsibility for this and sign
off on the form
> > in such a way that they are accountable for information
that gets past
> > the process. But there is pushback on this (surprise!).
> >
> > Do others have processes that work well for them?
>
> (UW - if you are listening, pardon me for speaking for you.)
>
> I *really* like the University of Washington's procedures
[1]. They also
> have developed their own GNU-licensed tool[2] to clean the
hard drives.
> [1] http://www.washington.edu/admin/surplus/computer.html
> [2] http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/
>
> Brian
> --
> Brian Eckman
> Security Analyst
> OIT Security and Assurance
> University of Minnesota
>
>
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