Why You Need to Erase Your Data

What is data erasing   
Data erasing, opposite to data retrieving, is the process when people positively want their data to be erased. Data erasure removes all information while leaving the disk operable, preserving IT assets and the environment.
Why erase your data

1. Theft of sensitive data: Leaving the sensitive information on your storage device might put your organization at risk for data theft.                                                                                               
2. Poor control of internal data accessibility: To limit access to sensitive information, an erasure product or services should be used to an employee’s computer when he leaves the company and before that computer is given to another employee. 
3. Regulatory compliance violations: Data erasure software or hardware will help your organization better meet regulations of data privacy and retention.
4. Simply deleting data from a hard drive does not mean that the data is gone forever.

When you need to wipe your hard drive

1. When disposing used PCs and hard drives
2. When transferring a PC from one user to another
3. When customer data must be removed to meet government regulations

How Ontrack Eraser software helps you
Although the spectrum of products that erase data varies, our data eraser software is an easy-to-use, highly flexible data erasure tool that erases all traces of data stored on a targeted media - ensuring that sensitive information does not fall into the wrong hands. Ontrack will:

1. Completely removes all data on targeted storage devices using proven, customisable overwriting procedures
2. Includes flexible reporting features to help you guarantee that all data have been erased and when
3. Can be used in both Linux and Windows environments
4. Runs over servers or on individual PCs 
5. Offers flexible licensing models, fast installation and simple configuration

Perhaps the best testament to Ontrack Eraser’s ability to permanently remove data is that even the Ontrack Data Recovery team cannot recover data that have been removed by Ontrack Eraser!