Data Wiping

When it comes to ensuring the safety and security of your data, it's important to choose a company that is certified to destruction standards like NIST 800-88. At Securedrive, we are proud to be certified to this standard.

 

Our data destruction services are designed to protect your privacy and ensure that your data is never compromised. We use state-of-the-art equipment and procedures to destroy your data quickly and securely, and we can provide you with a Certificate of Destruction upon request.

 

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-88, "Policy on Media Sanitization", was created to address the need for standardising data destruction techniques across industries. We rely on physical crushing equipment and software that meets the most rigorous certification requirements to render data unrecoverable.

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Securedrive uses a NIST- tested and approved data erasure software that follows NIST 800-88 guidelines for media sanitization to help enterprises, governments securely erase sensitive data beyond the scope of recovery from HDDs & SSDs across PCs, Macs & servers.

 

We employ NIST-certified data erasure techniques to help securely wipe the data using NIST Clear and NIST-ATA Purge.

 

Securedrive provides a data erasure certificate to help organizations meet statutory and regulatory compliance. In addition, it offers tamper-proof audit trails for data security & privacy and helps meet global compliances such as SOX, GLBA, HIPAA, ISO 27001, EU-GDPR, and PCI-DSS.

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Certified NIST 800-88 Data Destruction Services

 

If you're looking for a reliable, certified NIST 800-88 data destruction company in the UAE, look no further than Securedrive. We offer NIST 800-88 data destruction services throughout Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Al Ain, Sharjah and Ras Al Khaima.  Contact us today to learn more about our security practices and how we ensure that your data is completely unrecoverable.

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What is the NIST 800-88 Standard?

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-88 standard is a guideline for organizations that need to destroy sensitive information. The goal of the standard is to ensure that all data is irreversibly destroyed so that it cannot be accessed or reconstructed. To meet this goal, the standard outlines several methods of data destruction, including physical destruction, degaussing, and data erasure. The specific method that is used depends on the type of media being destroyed and the level of security required. The NIST 800-88 standard is an important tool for protecting information security and ensuring that confidential data remains confidential.

 

What is Media Sanitization and what is the Media Sanitization Process?

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Media sanitization is the process of physically destroying data on a storage device so that it cannot be recovered. This can be done using a variety of media sanitization methods, including crushing, shredding, melting, or incinerating the device. Media sanitization is often used when data needs to be destroyed for security reasons, such as when a computer is being disposed of or sold. It is also sometimes used to ensure that sensitive data cannot be recovered from a storage device that has been lost or stolen. In some cases, media sanitization may also be required by law.

 

For example, many healthcare organizations are subject to strict regulations about the destruction of patient records. Media sanitization is an important part of data security, and it can help to protect businesses and individuals from identity theft and other types of fraud.

 

Benefits of NIST 800-88 Data Destruction

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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-88 provides guidelines for media sanitization. The standard describes different methods of data destruction and gives recommendations for each type of method. Some of the benefits of NIST 800-88 include: 

 

• NIST 800-88 is a flexible standard that can be applied to different types of media, including paper, optical, and magnetic media.

• The standard takes into account the different ways that data can be stored on media, making it possible to tailor the data destruction process to the specific media type.

• NIST 800-88 provides guidance on how to verify that data has been successfully destroyed, ensuring that confidential information is not inadvertently released. 

• The standard can be used to destroy data on a variety of storage devices, including hard drives, thumb drives, and CDs.

• NIST 800-88 is an internationally recognized standard, providing businesses with a way to demonstrate their commitment to data security.