Your company has recently decommissioned a large number of hard drives and intends to give the devices to a recycling company. Before doing so, the company wants to ensure that all sensitive data on the drives is irretrievably destroyed to comply with data protection regulations. What is the most appropriate method for securing the data before giving the disks to a 3rd party?
Physically destroying the hard drives by drilling
Degaussing the hard drives to disrupt the stored data
Conducting a standard formatting of the hard drives
Performing a low-level formatting to prepare the hard drives for new data