Degaussing

hard drive degaussing service

Hard Drive Degaussing Service at your doorstep, anywhere in India

When you are ready to upgrade with new systems, the need for disposing the old CPU is to a E waste recycling company is required, but before handing over the units, the hard drives must be removed and data deleted completely

Degaussing is method in which the data is completely deleted irrevocably using a electronic table top device, This degaussing machine is so efficient that in just under 30 seconds the hard drive is wiped clean completely

We offer an onsite data degaussing service whereby our uniformed fully security screened staff will arrive at the scheduled time and date and degauss the hard drives in your presence.

The Degausser is a portable table top device meeting the highest recognized national and international standards;
PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry) Data Security Standard
HIPAA (Health Information Portability and Accountability Act)
PIPEDA (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act)
Data Protection Act 1998

After completion of the onsite degaussing activity a DATA DESTRUCTION CERTIFICATE is issued mentioning each individual serial number of the degaussed storage medium.

Then if required you can add a second layer of security by shredding the drives into small pieces at our facility. They can be brought immediately after degaussing and the fragments taken back also if required.

As the degaussing does not change the physical form of the media, rather on its appearance after degaussing it is difficult to make out if it does not hold any data, so Information Technology Security Experts recommend first onsite degaussing at source of all data storage devices such as Hard Drives, LTO tapes Etc. to a Certified precedent such as HMG infosec 5 and PCI DSS and then to physically destroy each device thereafter. The best method of physical destruction is to either crush or shred which disfigures the storage medium rendering it useless and permanently destroyed.

Deleting | Reformatting | Wiping (Software) | Over writing | Erasure
Does not completely delete data, there are known methods by which data stored in layers can be retrieved,
These methods can be used only if you wish to reuse the Hard Drive
DEGAUSSING is the only method by which the data is completely deleted.
Once the hard drive is degaussed it is useless and cannot be reused

An unexpected data explosion occurred in March 2020 when workers suddenly left the security of their offices to work from home. Of course that kept critical tasks moving rather than completely put a stop to our professional lives.

The need for IT professionals to keep track of now remote (at home PC or laptop) hard drives that hold critical data has resulted in the need of small amounts of hard drive degaussing at multiple locations, we are ready to cater to this requirement with onsite degaussing services in major IT hubs in India.