When it comes to keeping your data secure, keeping your equipment functional is a major priority. Security isn’t limited to firewalls and passwords. You might be surprised just how easy it is for data to fall into the wrong hands and where you least expect it. With the right extraction software, someone can pull out a year ago inoperative hard drive from the landfill. Some can take the information contained in those files and use for genuinely awful reasons. Even outdated or seemingly destroyed hardware is a vulnerable point in the integrity of your information security.
As technology evolves, so do the methods used by those committing the crimes. Between basic fraud and identity theft to more advanced corporate espionage, gathering and selling secrets is big business in the criminal underworld. Most of the world’s wealth is now an abstract concept. It exists in the blur of ones and zeroes, passed back and forth between banks, without a piece of silver ever exchanging hands. The commodities that are being stolen and traded are no different. Jewel heists and armored car robberies have taken a back seat to identity theft. The trained hand of the pickpocket or safe-cracker is nothing compared to the cheese-puff stained fingers of your typical hacker.
Hard Drive Destruction
After all the hard work you have put into your company, do you really want to offer up your industry secrets and sensitive information free of charge? There are landfills full of system units containing retrievable information that someone can use for doing just that. Even in erasing a hard drive,it is possible to salvage the information. The best method of eliminating data media that you no longer want out in the world is physical hard drive destruction. The best method possible, with current technology, is to physically crush, mangle, and deface the media storing the data. Once destroyed, nobody can retrieve or steal that information.
Sound easy? It isn’t. Even partial data recovery is possible if you decide to take matters into your own hands. Just hitting something with a hammer, burning it with a blowtorch, or bending it will likely deter data recovery, but it will still be possible. Our methods approach absolute obliteration when it comes to data recovery. Plus there is the whole matter of exposure to potentially hazardous materials which these components are made from.
Rather than risk harming yourself in this process, and probably not even destroying the media, you need to contact us for the best practices you can get for protecting your data. However, just making sure to back up your files is not security. Sometimes, it means making sure something disappears forever.
