Expiration of data and the destruction or disposal of data is an important part of the data management lifecycle. Data may be disposed of for many reasons, the most common being:
The importance and complexities of data destruction and disposal are often overlooked and as a result, data may be disposed of improperly allowing open and unauthorized access to sensitive data.
Tape Ark understands the importance of not only recovering critical data from tapes but also the need to ensure that confidential information assets require a permanent and secure disposal solution.
Tape Ark offers a range of data destruction and sanitization services which provide secure, permanent and confidential destruction of your data (tapes and disk drives). Our methods include data erasure, data degaussing and the physical destruction of the storage medium – whether they are data tapes, disk drives, optical media or other data storage devices.
Depending on the level of sanitization required, logical data wiping can be used for two purposes. The first would be if you want to reuse your tapes Tape Ark offers a service to erase your media for reuse within your organisation or for secondhand resale. This is also ideal for leased equipment and charity donations. In this scenario, the media tapes undergo a front to back erasure process, wiping all existing data and preparing them for reuse.
Where tapes are not required for reuse or resale, Tape Ark can provide an additional layer of destruction security, by degaussing the tape media. This process involves re-orientating the magnetic domains of the media to forensically wipe data and prevent the media from being read or reused in the future.
Physical media destruction is the end of the line for all data and storage media. It involves the physical destruction of the tape via dismantling, shredding or incineration, and therefore ensuring that any form of data recovery is no longer viable.
Several alternatives can be undertaken to achieve this; however, the result is the same with the media no longer functional and the data irretrievable. Tape Ark understands that organizations have differing security, ethical and environmental standards and requirements. They also have different budgets for the disposal of data. As a result, there are multiple physical data destruction options available.
Following any physical media destruction and sanitization process, the customer is issued with formal certification outlining the details of the sanitized media and the process undertaken with the wiping or destruction of the media. This is to ensure that the customer can perform their due diligence for internal and external regulatory purposes.
Tape Ark prides itself on its technical capability. Customers feel assured their objectives and unique challenges are well understood – what’s important to them, where they’re headed, and the opportunities that lie ahead.
Restoring data from legacy formats requires deep technical knowledge and experience.
At Tape Ark, we specialize in rapidly migrating media tapes to the cloud, regardless of volume, size, or format.
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