April 30th, 2008
Leasing companies- Secure hard data drive destruction?
Small-business owners as well as personal users should be aware of the risks involved when leasing a computer and trusting the lessor to delete important business and personal information from the computer before releasing it to the next customer.
Leasing companies typically resell the returned equipment and if not properly and thoroughly erased that could be exposing a tremendous risk to corporations and consumers since the hard drive data it can be easily reconstructed with readily available software from the Internet.
It is important to select a leasing company that guarantees secure hard data drive destruction.
According to the Department of Defense retiring IT assets require at least a three time data over right.
Public companies should maintain an audit track of equipment in order to achieve compliance and the application should be fully automated, eliminating all possibility of a human and hardware errors.
