Successfully
overwritten data are much more secure than merely deleted data, but it is vulnerable to unauthorized recovery.
Files that are dragged to the Burn utility are banished to the twilight zone and
overwritten with a series of random numbers.
Versomatic's patent-pending technology monitors all documents on your computer and whenever it senses a file is about to be changed, deleted, or
overwritten, it archives the original before any changes are made.
FDRERASE also provides a CCEVS security validated audit function enabling a user to confirm that the physical tracks of the DASD have indeed been
overwritten sufficiently that no residual information remains.
Today, when end user files are lost, corrupted or
overwritten, IT departments must intervene to locate and recover files from the most recent backups from tape.
In minutes my entire directory had been
overwritten wiping out all my data and replacing it with default files.
This file may be used later to view, print and validate that the drive has been completely
overwritten, erased or "purged.
However, we did not have a good strategy for computer asset disposal, which resulted in a number of challenges, including obsolete equipment occupying precious real estate in some schools; environmental risk if schools didn't dispose of equipment properly; and data security risk if hard drives containing student information weren't
overwritten in the disposal process.
The problem however, is that many times data is simply marked as available to be
overwritten or only partially
overwritten.
Write protection switch to prevent being
overwrittenThe SEC Interpretive Release also states that storage solutions that only mitigate the risk a record will be
overwritten or erased do not meet the requirements of Rule 17a-4.
That pattern stays on the hard drive until it is
overwritten by another document.
