The Best On-Site Hard Drive Destroyer

Best Site Hard Drive Destroyer

Data protection is a indemand skill in today’s market. Most companies use anti-virus software, firewalls, intrusion detection, encryption, and other methods to keep their stored and in-transit data safe from the prying efforts of nefarious characters. They spend time training their staff to avoid phishing schemes, whether through email or telephone calls. Eventually, all electronic devices become obsolete and need proper disposal. Data is transferred to a new device and the old device is put into a pile with others waiting for an opportune time to be disposed of.

The storage media, usually a hard drive, optical disk, thumb drive, or mobile device sits in a room or storage closet waiting for a pickup from a salvage vendor or disposal company with the data intact on the device. These disposal activities take place on a monthly, quarterly, or annual schedule. The devices are then turned over to the vendor to deal with. In some cases, you get a certificate of destruction for the media.

Device Destruction

While the devices are waiting for destruction, any number of employees or contractors or employees can access them. This creates a potential for unauthorized access to the information contained on these storage media types. In some instances, the removed storage media from the device sits in an unaudited area until someone comes along with a giant magnet, drill, hammer, and chisel, or another mechanical method, to render the component unusable. Some methods are effective, some are not, and again the data is available and accessible during this phase.

A better way to address these concerns would be to destroy the media retention device immediately using a hard drive destroyer when taken out of service in an environmentally safe manner. Employee safety is also important in this process as is the ease of use. Various regulations from HIPPA, to SOX, require the protection of sensitive information. The best way to ensure this is to destroy the data retention device.

MediaVise

Phiston Technologies, a leader in the hard drive destroyer arena, provides several cost-effective products for destroying retention media on-premises. Their, MediaVise is a clear example of their innovative, ergonomic, easy-to-use approach to destroying outdated and obsolete media storage equipment.

MediaVise is a desktop unit that allows you to destroy desktop, and laptop hard drives, along with optical media (CD/DVD), Smart Phones, Cell Phones, and PDAs in moments. It complies compliant with the NSA issued standards. Simply turn on the MediaVise, drop the unit into the opening at the top, push the crush button. It will exert 40,000 pounds of pressure to crush the device, rendering it incapable of reaccessing again.

It has ergonomic and safety features, such as HEPA filtration and hands-free execution. This will make your Employee Health and Safety group happy. It has a relatively small size (two feet tall, one foot wide). So, you can place it inside a small IT room or closet.

While compliance issues often drive the requirements of data protection, physical protection of outdated equipment often gets overlooked. Auditing of storage media removed from equipment is almost non-existent in most organizations. Removing these devices from existence immediately, permanently, safely and in a cost-efficient manner, prevents unwarranted and unauthorized access. Visit us today to see the additional products we offer in the area of device destruction to enable you to meet data protection need that you may not know that you have.

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