The Data Diva E85 - Mark Dobson and Debbie Reynolds
"The Data Diva" Talks Privacy Podcast
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Data Sanitization
A lot of people think that if they reform at the hard drive, for example, that they've a wiped out the data. In reality, all that does is to remove the table that tells the drive where the data is stored but it doesn't remove the data itself. So just that basic understanding that overriding the drive isis done with specialized hardware and software. Its very energy intensive. Bigger is can take hours and hours every single sectors being overwritten. That's not even counting having the personnel trained and having the company certified. There's a huge amount of investment that goes into meeting these certification standards. I'm sure anybody who's done an iso certification can tell you. It's
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