Connie,

As I'm sure you are aware, Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) data has a different 
standard for what constitutes "securely erased" than your garden variety data. As 
such, I normally recommend that people dealing with tasks such as yours contact their 
Inspector General (IG) office, CIO office, or whoever is in charge of the agency IT 
security and get a tool/procedure from them. Since you are submitting the question to 
the newsgroup I assume that you've already done this and they weren't of much help.

Of the tools mentioned in the list so far, I've suggested both autoclave and bcwipe to 
people before based on other agency's use of those programs. I also suggest that you 
may want to err on the safe side and use 7 passes to be thorough. If memory serves, 
seven passes is also the DoD standard (along with randomized non-sensitive data for 
the re-write).

Regards,

Bomm




>Does anyone have recommendations for freeware or shareware that effectively
>erases disks for unclassified but sensitive information? This would be used
>for all machines "retired" to school programs, etc. We need one for Windows
>and one for UNIX, if one tool can't clean both types of disks. Anybody have
>experience with this?
>
>Thank you!
>
>Connie


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