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Data Destruction

Your data is a highly valuable and dangerous commodity in the wrong hands. Even your non-functioning Hard Drives have recoverable data which in the wrong hands could severely damage your organisation. Data theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in New Zealand.

Our services will ensure that none of your data will ever fall into the wrong hands.

Data Destruction — ITRECYCLA Drive Shredder

Optical Destroyer — ITRECYCLA Optical CD/DVD Destroyer

How We Destroy Data

Simply Reformatting or Damaging a Hard Drive is not enough to remove your data permanently from the drive as the data can still be recovered from the magnetic platters.

IT Recycla offers the following techniques to securely destroy sensitive data:

1. Disk Degaussing

A simple method for securely destroying all data from your Hard Drive or Tape is degaussing. Our Degausser releases a large pulse over your Hard Drive or Data Tape Destroying and Sanitizing ALL data. Our degausser has been independently tested and certified to meet the most stringent security standards including ANSI, CE, PCI-DSS, NIST, HIPPA and many others.

2. Drive Shredding

ITRECYCLA can also shred your drives (or devices) turning them into small metal/plastic fragments thus eliminating any likelihood of any important data being recovered from them.

Shredding & degaussing is the only bullet proof “belts and braces” approach to secure data destruction.

3. Data Erasure

ITRECYCLA utilizes both hardware and software as appropriate to efficiently and securely erase data from wide range of technologies and devices including:

Hard disk drives (IDE, SCSI, SATA, SAS, Fibre Channel)
Drive arrays and towers
Solid State Drives
Mobile devices (iPhone, Android, Blackberry)
Drive arrays and towers
Data CDs/DVDs

Our solutions comply with all major security standards including: US Department of Defence 5220.22M (3-pass), US Department of Defence 5220.22M (7-pass), US NIST 800-88, United Kingdom CESG “Certified” erasing standards Baseline and Enhanced

Data Destruction On-Site

Some customers want absolute assurance and validation that any data residing on their end-of-life hardware is completely erased prior to leaving their facilities. In these cases, a fully trained ITRECYCLA Data Destruction Technician can be sent on-site to provide data destruction services at your office or facility.

This service has proven popular with government departments and organizations whose data must remain private and secure and is subject to regulatory compliance.

Our Technician will travel to your facility and, while in your presence, remove the Hard Drives, Degauss them and pack them for transport to our facility for recycling.

Our portable degaussing equipment has built in safeguards that measure the strength of the magnetic field before each erasure cycle ensuring that it is strong enough to remove ALL magnetic patterns from the media. This is measured on an independant circuit.

As well as our On-Site Service we offer a Free Pick-Up Service or a Mail-In/Courier-In Services. Certificates of Destruction can be issued for all Destroyed Data Bearing Devices by request.

Contact Us for more information or a confidential quote for your Data Destruction needs. Request a FREE, Confidential Quote NOW

1. Data Erasure

Data erasure is the process of using specially designed software to overwrite the entire drive / device with pseudo-random “1’s and 0’s, often multiple times, thus eliminating anything meaningful that may have been present.

ITRECYCLA utilizes both hardware and software as appropriate to efficiently and securely erase data from wide range of technologies and devices. Our solutions comply with all major security standards including: US Department of Defence 5220.22M (3-pass), US Department of Defence 5220.22M (7-pass), US NIST 800-88, United Kingdom CESG “Certified” erasing standards Baseline and Enhanced.

Where the erasure process of any drives or devices fails to validate for any reason, it is ITRECYCLA’s policy to remove and shred it.

Advantages of erasure:

Data erasure is a good option where you may wish to see the drive or device re-used by someone else after you’ve finished with it yourself, or if you want to re-deploy it elsewhere.

Disadvantages of erasure:

Time consuming with erasure of large capacity drives taking several hours to complete
If any part of the disk or device cannot be addressed by the erasure software (eg bad disk sector / unknown device architecture) then the erasure will be ineffective / unsuccessful.
There are some questions around the efficacy of erasure for devices that use flash memory to buffer & store data.

Please see data erasure software for more information on the data erasure solutions we use.

Degaussing

A simple method for securely destroying all data from your Hard Drive or Tape is degaussing. Our Degausser releases a large electrical pulse over your Hard Drive or Data Tape, destroying and sanitizing ALL data at a magnetic level. It is so powerful, that hard drives usually don’t even spin up after being degaussed.

Our degausser has been independently tested and certified to meet the most stringent security standards including ANSI, CE, PCI-DSS, NIST, HIPPA and many others.

Advantages of degaussing:

Degaussing is very fast, taking around 20 – 30 seconds per drive
Cost effective
Can be performed onsite

Disadvantages

Whilst degaussing is 100% effective on magnetic storage media such as hard disk drives & tapes, it is not effective on flash memory technologies found in solid state drives (SSD’s), hybrid drives or thumb drives.

Degauss & Shred

Deleting vs Erasing

Deleting means you only remove the path to the data but the data will be intact and recoverable until you overwrite it. Data erasure is overwriting the data in every sector of the drive.

Why not shredding the hard drive?

Of course shredding will make the data unrecoverable but it will also make the machine not reusable. If you erase the data with YOUWIPE you are able to resell the hardware.

Introducing ITRecycla’s Data Erasure Software Youwipe

YouWipe regulation compliance

Complies with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (Document 52012PC0011)
Meets and exceeds requirements set in Article 17 ”Right to be forgoten and to erasure”
Ensures regulatory compliance with data destruction, reporting and auditing capabilities
Complies with the secure data removal requirements as stated by ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA and SOX
Follows Cryptographic Erase Guidelines accepted by the Federal Agencies of EU and US

Technical Features

Complies with multiple international define overwriting standards
Supports SSD, SATA, ATA, IDE, SCSI, USB, FC, RAID
Simoultaneous erasure of multiple disks
Automatic erasure verification
Unlimited disk drive size