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?
Degaussing the hard drives to disrupt the stored data
Performing a low-level formatting to prepare the hard drives for new data
Conducting a standard formatting of the hard drives
Degaussing is an appropriate method for securing data on hard drives before disposal or recycling. It uses a high-powered magnet to disrupt the magnetic domain where the data is stored, rendering the data unrecoverable. This is a common practice in situations where hard drives contain sensitive information that must be irretrievably destroyed.
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