When companies choose to shred and destroy electronic media rather than sanitize the data, they also lose the opportunity to reuse these devices and gain value from these assets. In addition, all current privacy protection standards, guidelines, and directives (e.g., HIPAA, IRS, CJIS, and FTC) allow for the electronic sanitization of drives. This is despite the fact that there are no published cases of data being recovered from a drive sanitized to a NIST 800-88 Clear or Purge level. Lately, we’ve seen several enterprise clients considering a switch to a policy of physically destroying hard drives (HDDs) in retired IT assets, rather than allowing for electronic data sanitization and reuse of these devices.
There's a lot to lose when you shred your hard drives
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