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Re: Equipment Disposition - Disk Drive "Sanitization"
From: "Niedens, Travis" <Travis_Niedens () REDLANDS EDU>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 09:20:28 -0800
I've been using this tool for some time and it is free: http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/ Here's some info from their site: Eraser is FREE software and its source code is released under GNU General Public License. The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter Gutmann's paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" and they are selected to effectively remove magnetic remnants from the hard drive. Other methods include the one defined in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the US Department of Defence and overwriting with pseudorandom data. You can also define your own overwriting methods. Travis Niedens Network Manager University of Redlands -----Original Message----- From: Sadler, Connie [mailto:Connie_Sadler () BROWN EDU] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 8:46 AM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] Equipment Disposition - Disk Drive "Sanitization" 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? Thanks much... Connie J. Sadler, CM, CISSP, CISM Director, IT Security, Brown University Box 1885, Providence, RI 02912 Connie_Sadler () Brown edu PGP Fingerprint: 452A C178 1450 9CE1 3AC1 CC12 956F 2C55 DB94 A9C7 Office: 401-863-7266 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/.
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- Equipment Disposition - Disk Drive "Sanitization" Sadler, Connie (Feb 25)
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- Re: Equipment Disposition - Disk Drive "Sanitization" Michael_Maloney (Feb 25)
- Re: Equipment Disposition - Disk Drive "Sanitization" Niedens, Travis (Feb 25)
- Re: Equipment Disposition - Disk Drive "Sanitization" David L. Wasley (Feb 25)
- Re: Equipment Disposition - Disk Drive "Sanitization" Brian Eckman (Feb 25)
- Re: Equipment Disposition - Disk Drive "Sanitization" Theresa M Rowe (Feb 25)
- Re: Equipment Disposition - Disk Drive "Sanitization" Theresa M Rowe (Feb 25)