what policy for handling and disposal of files and removable media throught the company
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what policy for handling and disposal of files and removable media throught the company
Data Retention Policy, IT Policy, Removable storage, Removable Media
how do we handle and dispose the files media thought the cimpany
ASKED: Mar 30 2009  6:47 PM GMT
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Our company simply destroys the hard drives and tapes that we no longer need. It is difficult to completely clear a hard drive of residual data. There are a few companies that offer certified solutions to clean the disks, but those can be expensive.

Although this may seem to do the job (use of a sledge hammer), there are many other ways of destroying hard drives. The use of a sledge hammer can and will put both the person swinging the hammer and the company endorsing this in serious trouble if anyone is hurt doing this.

I'm not sure that I can do this (because of IT's policies, but I would like to send you a short article entitled "Why and How We Destroy Hard Drives". It goes into the many ways of destroying hard drives including the sledge hammer.

If you email me at Bowindustries@aol.com, I'll be glad to send my newsletter to you.

Don Blackburn
Bowindustries@aol.com
(508) 877-2887
Last Answered: Apr 1 2009  3:06 PM GMT by MrClean07   95 pts.
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Robert Stewart   1810 pts.  |   Mar 31 2009  3:05PM GMT

What Technochic said but with a really big sledge hammer in the parking lot on Fridays sometimes we have kill old harddrive days. Great for moral, a tech with a sledgehammer funny site for the rest of the companies staff, of course we do clean up after ourselves.

 
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