This really seems to be coming from the Security Officer (physical, Guards, Guns and Dogs) not Information Security Officer world.

Encrypt the hard drives, destroy the keys, low level format, done.

All in house, fully secure, as close to free as you can get, data never leaves your control.

I really wanted to watch the video I hope you can put it back up, at the moment it says it is not available

Much easier to use a software solution, like Venderis, that erases HDDs simultaneously and before they are removed from service. On-network erasure can reduce risks from cannibalization and also make tracking easier with a central repository for erasures.

I understand that all the posters here are tech savvy, but consider the appeal of this service to corporate managers.

A techie can assure them all they want that, statistically, the data is gone. Then you may have to explain to them how the software solution works. And as one poster notes: "On-network erasure can REDUCE risks from cannibalization..." Try explaining "reduce" to the non-techie manager.

With this solution, you show them a pile of scrap and the issue is settled permanently with no qualifying words. That is the brilliance of this solution. After all, it is the techs that let the data theft issue get out of hand. Why should a corporate manager trust the techs after that?

I guess my point is that shredding hard drives keeps PCs out of the hands of people that could otherwise use them, such as schools, non-profits or third-world organizations and automatically sends them to the dump or waste stream. In the case where someone pays for PCs to be recycled, a waste stream is still created from the elements that have no recycle value.

On the other hand, software like Venderis will wipe drives and restore the operating system on multiple PCs at a time. By automating the entire erasure process on hundreds of machines at a time, organizations can save money. Most importantly, by putting the OS back onto a wiped hard drive, systems are reuseable to schools, non-profits, third-world organizations. Plus systems are kept out of the waste stream that much longer.

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Thanks for tackling the issue of information destruction. It is hard to understand why the article overlooked one of the most significant forces in this arena - the national association for information destruction (NAID) which has been advancing the cause of proper information destruction for 15 years. www.naidonline.org