Crucial Technologies is planning on donating old laptops to a local charity. What process is most important for admins to perform to protect company information from disclosure once the laptops are reused?
Data sanitization is the process of deliberately, permanently, and irreversibly removing or destroying the data stored on a memory device to ensure it cannot be recovered. This is the crucial step to ensure confidential company information is not disclosed when hardware is donated or disposed of. Data recovery is the process of retrieving inaccessible data, which is the opposite of the required action. Data retention policies define how long data should be kept, not how to dispose of it. Data forensics is the analysis of digital evidence, typically for an investigation.
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