{"id":29,"date":"2010-05-09T22:04:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T14:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kungroup.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2010-06-20T00:17:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T16:17:08","slug":"secure-erase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kungroup.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Secure Erase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Data erasure<\/strong> is a method of  software-based overwriting that completely destroys all <a title=\"Data  remanence\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Data_remanence\">electronic data residing<\/a> on a <a title=\"Hard drive\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hard_drive\">hard  drive<\/a> or other <a title=\"Digital media\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_media\">digital media<\/a>. Permanent data erasure goes  beyond basic <a title=\"File deletion\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File_deletion\">file deletion<\/a> commands, which only remove  direct pointers to data <a title=\"Disk sector\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Disk_sector\">disk  sectors<\/a> and make <a title=\"Data recovery\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Data_recovery\">data  recovery<\/a> possible with common software tools. Unlike <a title=\"Degaussing\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Degaussing\">degaussing<\/a> and physical destruction, which render the disk unusable, data erasure   removes all information while leaving the disk operable, preserving   assets and the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Software-based overwriting uses a software  application to write  patterns of meaningless data onto each of a hard  drive&#8217;s sectors. There  are key differentiators between data erasure and  other overwriting  methods, which can leave data intact and raise the  risk of data breach  or <a title=\"Data spill\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Data_spill\">spill<\/a>,  <a title=\"Identity\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Identity\">identity<\/a> theft and failure to achieve regulatory compliance. Data erasure also   provides multiple overwrites so that it supports recognized government   and industry standards. It provides verification of data removal, which   is necessary for meeting certain standards.<\/p>\n<p>To protect data on lost or stolen media, some  data erasure  applications remotely destroy data if the password is  incorrectly  entered. Data erasure tools can also target specific data  on a disk for  routine erasure, providing a <a title=\"Hacking\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hacking\">hacking<\/a> protection method that is a less time-consuming than <a title=\"Encryption\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Encryption\">encryption<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Services<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading this article. In short if you  have anything that you wish to Securely Delete from (HardDisk, USB  Stick, Memory Cards etc), do <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kungroup.com\/?page_id=2\">contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Data_erasure\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data erasure is a method of software-based overwriting that completely destroys all electronic data residing on a hard drive or other digital media. Permanent data erasure goes beyond basic file deletion commands, which only remove direct pointers to data disk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kungroup.com\/?p=29\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-secure-erase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kungroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kungroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kungroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kungroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kungroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kungroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kungroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kungroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kungroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}