Certified and flexible data wiping services

We use a range of secure methods followed by wipe verification; this is Data Protection act 2018 compliant, protecting the owner of the Hard drive from data theft, identify theft or legal action for failure to securely destroy personal data.

We take our data erasure responsibilities very seriously and we make a deliberate effort to stay up to date with the latest understanding of both data erasure and data recovery.

This has led us to developing a very flexible data wiping service, allowing us to always use the best methods for each data storage medium.

We also verify each wipe and if any drive fails digital erasure, it is destroyed and rendered physically unreadable

Data wiping standards

We offer a range of secure, compliant and certified standards based on your company requirements:

• HM Government IS5 Enhanced (Infosec Standard 5)
• National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) principles
• US Department of Defence standard (DoD 5220.22-M)
• NIST SP 800-88 Rev.2
• CPNI Standards

Data wiping methods

And we take the same flexible approach to the methods we use:

• ATA Secure Erase
• CBL Data Shredder
• Nwipe / ShredOs
• Eurosoft ZeroData
• CCleaner
• Disk Wipe
• Eraser
• KillDisk
• PCDiskEraser

Data storage media can be very different, requiring customised data wiping

We test random samples with data recovery tools to see if any meaningful data can be retrieved; so far, we have never found remnant data on a drive we have wiped.

Although our chosen processes are completely effective, we also know that many organisations have extra requirements, such as the need for drives to be wiped by a certain method or to a certain standard.

We are always able and willing to adapt to whatever your organisations ITAD policies.

What about data erasure and data destruction?

Where required, we utilise the DoD 5220.22-M “method” for data erasure from hard drives. This method of erasure overwrites hard drives with patterns of ones and zeros. The process typically requires three secure overwriting passes and verification at the end of the final pass.

Erasing a hard drive using the DoD 5220.22-M data sanitization method will prevent all software-based file recovery methods from recovering data from the drive, as well as hardware-based recovery methods.

If, for any reason, a drive reports that it failed to wipe successfully, it will also be physically destroyed.

We issue a report listing all the drives, their unique IDs and whether they were wiped or destroyed.

Where necessary for your internal data compliance policies regarding data destruction we can issue you with data destruction certificates showing the outcome of the erasure along with the unique serial numbers of all drives erased.