Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound hard drives??

[Matthew Gracie <graciem () CANISIUS EDU>]

Alex Keller wrote:
> our campus uses a secure recycling service that provides certificate of
> destruction. however our specific unit DBANs (http://www.dban.org/) all
> drives with the DOD Short wipe before we send them to the recyclers.
> drives that will not complete the DOD Short wipe are hammered (break out
> the safety glasses) until we can hear that the plates have shattered or
> the carcass is severely deformed, then the drive goes in the secure
> recycle bin.
>
> best,
> alex keller

Another vote for DBAN - that's what we use here.

Hopefully, anything with really sensitive data on it is already
cryptoed, but it doesn't hurt to overwrite it as well.

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Matt Gracie                         (716) 888-8378
Information Security Administrator  graciem () canisius edu
Canisius College ITS                Buffalo, NY
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