Data Erasure

Data theft and data misuse is spiralling problem. Thousands of people annually are affected by criminal activity associated with data retrieval from hard drives that have been disposed of inappropriately. It is not sufficient to simply delete old data - your information is still easily accessible to those who wish to use it to their advantage.

Financial loss and irreparable damage to a company’s reputation could result if you fail to take your responsibilities seriously. Worse still, failure to comply with tough laws can result in civil and criminal liability. A data breach of any kind could be devastating to your company.

If the original data is overwritten only once, or even twice , it remains relatively easy to recover from a criminal perspective, because they'll subtract what they expect to be able to read from what's actually being read.

That's why the official US Department of Defense "file sanitization directive" standard requires three passes for data erasure.

A host of strict industry standards and government regulations have forced organisations to take adequate steps to mitigate the risk of unauthorised exposure of confidential corporate data. Organisations must have a gapless audit trail as evidence of the steps taken to prevent data leaks.

MKT can take care of this for you.

• Erase to DoD 5220.22m standard higher level – and exceed this universal standard by overwriting four times not three.
• CESG approved at ‘Top Secret’ – the highest approval in the land, approved by the security dept of GCHQ.
• FULL approvals by the military at ‘Top Secret’.

Certification is provided at the end of the process - ensuring you have an audit that meets current data legislation.

The processed hard drives may even have a buy back value. They can be reused, recycled or destroyed according to customer instructions.