But if you are dealing in DOD type of environments, they are doing physical destruction of the disks,
As for me its DBAN with multiple wipes, and physical destruction on top of it, for extra piece of mind. Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + [email protected] Phone:401-639-3505 -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Disk Security - Just found this... Most likely a single pass with DBAN or a similar utility is all that's needed to make disks secure. Disk destruction probably not necessary for standard business environments. http://sansforensics.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/overwriting-hard-drive-dat a/ "Opinions on the required or desired number of passes to correctly overwrite (wipe) a Hard Disk Drive are controversial, and have remained so even with organizations such as NIST stating that only a single drive wipe pass is needed to delete data such that it can not be recovered (that is a wipe of the data)." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
