Data Sanitization Practices by Organization
Several methods can be used to scrub or render unreadable data on disks, tapes and/or other read/write media.
Below is a listing of each campus organization and each group's preferred method of data sanitization. Please contact your Technical Advisor for information regarding specific appropriate security measures for your department.
| Campus Organization | Contact | Method 1 | Method 2 | Method 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AGSM | Nathan Roy | DBAN wipe | Physical Destruction | N/A |
| AP&B | Bill Freire | Active Kill Disk | N/A | N/A |
| Biomedical Sciences | Nancy Price | Wipe by reformatting | DBAN | N/A |
| CHASS | James Lin |
Pending | Pending |
Pending |
| Chancellor/EVC Office | Ruth Cabre Chacon | Retention of hard drives and magnets | N/A | N/A |
| Computing & Communications | Colleen Jaehnig | Erasing/Overwriting | Degaussing | Physical Destruction |
| CNAS | C&C Helpdesk |
Pending | Pending | Pending |
| COE | John Cleary | Pending | Pending | Pending |
| Graduate Division | Vicki Long | Pending | Pending | Pending |
| GSOE | Robert Wolfer | Pending | Pending | Pending |
| Library | Terry Toy | Sensitive data stored only on network drives, never on individual PCs | Forensic format utility wipe | Physical destruction via professional company |
| UNEX | Bill Manes | Physical Destruction | N/A | N/A |
| VCA | Kipp Smith | Random over-write using numerous passes | Physical Destruction |
N/A |
| VCR | Stan Fletcher | Pending | Pending | Pending |
| VCSA Tech Services | Ken Wolfrom | Norton Wipedisc | Servers wiped and reloaded before reuse | N/A |
| VCUA | Christian Hamilton | Servers: Physical Destruction | Workstations / Laptops: DBAN Wipe | Treos: Hard reset |
