Net Zeros and Ones: How Data Erasure Promotes Sustainability, Privacy, and Security

Data Sanitization: A Complete Guide to Managing Data Erasure provides everything an organization needs to put in place a compliant program for data end-of-life, the ultimate protection for your data. There are many technical means for destroying data, some mechanical, some logical. This book will guide you in your decisions: Should you drill a hole through that hard drive? Send it to a shredder? Overwrite all of the partitions? Or simply destroy the encryption keys for an encrypted disk? Beyond the means of ensuring that data cannot be recovered from storage media-even by the most sophisticated forensics-there are the details of managing data and abiding by regulations that require data retention. With thousands of laptops, desktops, mobile devices, and network gear, how do you manage their ultimate fate while ensuring that no data can ever be recovered? The authors will take you through the history of data sanitization. Learn how to be future proof and withstand even quantum computing as a threat to your secret data as well as learn from mistakes and malpractices that others have been guilty of. Get to know the personalities in the Industry at the same time as you become an internal subject matter expert on data sanitization.