Think the data is gone? Think again. “A Powerbook was trapped for two days in a sunken cruise ship at the bottom of the Amazon River. The owner grabbed their scuba gear and dove down to rescue it. DriveSavers recovered[…]
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Degaussing 101
What do you picture when you think of “destruction?” Hard drives can be destroyed in a variety of ways: pounded with an ax, shredded between metal teeth, dropped from a spaceship, and STILL contain data. There is only one good way to eliminate all data from a hard drive: degauss it. A degausser is a machine that generates a magnetic field for erasing magnetic storage media, such as hard drives and tape. If the gauss is sufficiently more powerful than the coercivity (resistance to being erased) of the drive, the data on the degaussed drive will be totally erased and become forensically unrecoverable. Degaussed drives should also be destroyed. Garner Products destroyers mangle hard drives such that that internal platters are bent and misshapen. This discourages data thieves from attempting to retrieve data from a degaussed drive. Learn more about degaussing and destruction in our latest blogs.
A Tale of Two CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers)
(A story about two different CISO data security plans with real-world application of decommissioning hard drives and the threat of ransomware) CISO Andrew Data Security Plan: Focused on Ransomware When Andrew, in California, was appointed Chief Information Security Officer of[…]
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Why is degaussing the best data destruction for HIPAA Compliance?
Imagine holding a letter in your hands that says that a hard drive containing your private, protected health information has gone missing. INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center, Inc., sent such a letter in September 2020. On October 17, 2019 they learned[…]
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Data Destruction vs Hard Drive Destruction
To destroy means “to ruin the structure or the condition of.” Picture an ax-wielding man on a wild rampage smashing guitars. The guitars have been broken up into pieces but are still recognizable. Destroy also means to “put out of[…]
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How to Destroy Hard Drives: NSA Data Sanitization
Nothing lasts forever, and this includes data storage devices. When it comes to end-of-life hard drive data sanitization and destroying hard drives, you have options. In order to sanitize a magnetic hard drive of all data to NSA Data Sanitization standards, you[…]
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Never Trust. Always Verify
The New Zero Trust Reality Nothing. Nil. Zero. That’s how much trust you should have in your users, devices, and network when it comes to today’s increasingly dispersed and complex data environment, according to the National Security Agency (NSA). While[…]
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The Critical Data Security and Data Privacy Risk
Hiding in Your Old Fax Machine “Many of us get medication at a pharmacy. Recently, I watched as the clerk filled my prescription, which comes in duplicate out of the fax machine. Following data privacy protocol, she very carefully put[…]
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Garner Recognizes: Keith Skinner, Varese-secure Ltd.
An unexpected data explosion occurred in March 2020 when millions of workers suddenly left the security of their offices to work from home. The need for IT professionals to keep track of millions of now remote hard drives and devices[…]
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Garner’s Newest Team Member
Meet Jeff Maloney Garner Products is pleased to welcome Jeff Maloney as our new account manager. Jeff brings extensive marketing and sales experience to Garner, especially in the area of channel development. At Garner, Jeff will be focused on building brand[…]
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DoD 5220.22-M: The Data Wipe Myth
Wiping standards have been debunked by the DoD. It’s been replaced by modern standards like the NSA/CSS policy manual 9-12 storage device sanitization and destruction manual. But like the urban legend of the alligators in the New York sewer system,[…]
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