Case Studies

Unfortunately improper data sanitization and disposal has resulted in data breaches. We have provided some high level summaries of previous incidents involving high profile organizations. The intent is to learn from these incidents and improve our own organization's media sanitization policies and procedures.

Under GLBA, FACTA, and SOX regulations; Morgan Stanley faced severe penalties due to a data breach. The source of the breach? Old decommissioned hard drives.

HealthReach Community Health Centers caused a data breach of ~116,000 customers. The source? Improper data sanitization and old IT hardware.

NIST 800-88 and the Reasonableness Standard

What is reasonable data destruction? It depends upon the data and your specific regulations.

Ohio's Digital Safe Harbor Law and its interaction with Media Sanitization.

Organizations which take robust cyber security measures can qualify for safe harbor from expensive lawsuits. Proper data destruction can help you qualify.

HAMR Drives and Classified Environments

Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording Drives are brand new technology and extremely impressive. But customers in National Security environments need to pause and make a plan on how to sanitize these drives under NSA guidance.