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How to erase live server data, without wiping the whole system
Securely erasing data on a live server is far more complicated than just pressing delete or format. Find out how to do it properly in this article.Read More
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How to spring clean your devices properly
If your devices need a spring clean, what’s the best way of approaching this? Find out how to clean up your devices properly and without losing data.Read More
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What is ‘virtualisation sprawl’ and how do you stop it?
Find out what ‘virtualisation sprawl’ is and how you can take steps to prevent it from happening.Read More
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Why you should erase virtual data
In this post we’ll analyse why it’s necessary to properly erase data in virtual systems and what legislation is in place to support this.Read More
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How to prevent EU penalties for not deleting data
No room for complacency Thanks to the new GDPR regulation, everyone from third-party erasure companies to IT staff will be legally obliged to securely erase data when the company is doing business...
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EU legislation adds pressure on companies to erase data
The impact of the Snowden scandal has only added to the need for the EU to increase the minimum security expectations for companies’ networks and personal data protection. The big problem is finding a...
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Are you ready for your mission? [quiz]
Time limit: 0 Quiz-summary 0 of 8 questions completed Questions: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Information So far you’ve done well. You know why erasure is important, how to delete data and where it can hide when...
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Are you the target?
Do you know the basic principle of hunting? Always be vigilant — otherwise you could become the prey! The world of data is a jungle — you could do a lot of hunting, but you could just as easily get...
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Who would James Bond be without his toys?
Total and unrecoverable annihilation of data isn’t easy these days, as the GCHQ agents who supervised the drilling through The Guardian’s hard drives knew all too well. The hard drives contained data...
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No data, no cry
Things used to be much easier back in the old days. When Cold War spies smuggled secrets, they could rest easy knowing that in case of an emergency, the information could be fairly easily destroyed....
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Slack space, or the devil is in the details
When I told you in my previous email that the only way to successfully erase a file is to COMPLETELY overwrite it, I wasn’t just trying to be dramatic. A few months ago, my friend had mistakenly...
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Destroying data: mission impossible
Data recovery experts often have to deal with cases where important data has been deleted — by accident or on purpose — by its owner or a third party. Those stories don’t always end the same but more...
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A rabbit hole full of data. And in it – a mole
Remember Alice in Wonderland? For most of us, the world of data is a wonderland — we don’t care how it works, we just want it to work. But I’m here to take you all the way down the rabbit hole of...
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What is the black market value of your data?
In 2008 two big banks — The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and NatWest — experienced a massive security breach. When an employee sold an old company computer on eBay, private data of over a million...
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Agent 001 leaves no trace
“Paranoia’s the garlic in life’s kitchen; you can never have too much.” – T. Pynchon The amount of electronic information out there is overwhelming. You might think that your data is a safe needle in...
View ArticleThe top 10 worst data disasters from 2015
Our engineering team loves a good story about data disasters, especially when we can recover our customers’ information for them in extreme circumstances. For the last 13 years, we have collected and...
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Secure Deletion Of LUNs Of Active High-End Storage Systems Part 3/3
In the last two articles, we discussed the two most common scenarios leading to LUN erasure: securely erasing a LUN, so that the volume can be used again and erasing LUNs on one or more defective or...
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Secure Deletion Of LUNs Of Active High-End Storage Systems Part 2/3
Scrapped, defective or outdated hard drives can be a special source of danger for companies. Because in many high-end systems stored data are not only distributed over many hard drives, but often also...
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Secure Deletion of LUNs of Active High-End Storage Systems Part 1/3
The fact that data erasure is of immense importance for a company’s security has already been explained in several articles here on this blog. No matter whether it is a desktop computer, a manager...
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The importance of managing Return Merchandise Authorisations
Imagine a perfect data centre world where disk drives never failed or needed to be replaced. A world where even if drives came to the end of their useful life they could be simply swapped out and...
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