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Today, we’re launching Certified Data Erasure to help our customers better protect their data and meet the most rigorous compliance requirements when offboarding employee devices.
Data is a powerful advantage for organizations, but also potentially a huge liability. Bad actors are getting increasingly sophisticated in stealing sensitive, confidential, and/or proprietary information from organizations. In 2023, one cyber attack cost hospitality giant MGM Resorts International US$80mil.
On top of protecting their data, organizations need to prove to auditors and regulatory bodies that they’ve done so. Governments worldwide are tightening the screws on data protection, making compliance a headache for businesses with a global footprint and many regulatory bodies to deal with.
Erasure is the process of deliberately, permanently and irreversibly removing or destroying the data stored on a memory device to make it unrecoverable. Many organisations rely on using the OS wipe / factory reset, which in almost all cases is inadequate.
Disk Erasure is an important process that protects an organization’s sensitive data and ensures that it cannot be accessed by anyone, including their own customers or any malicious party. The consequences of not meeting erasure standards range from financial penalties to irreparable damage to a company’s image.
Data Erasure software generates reports and certificates that provide organizations with a guarantee that data on a laptop has been erased to a specific standard, which they would not get from a wipe using Windows or Mac's built-in features.
For office-based organizations, managing Data Erasure is much simpler. IT Teams can handle the process on-site, or work with one external partner.
When team members are distributed across regions, IT Teams must source, vet and manage multiple local vendors, which comes with additional complexity, like navigating time zones and language barriers. They must also ensure these vendors meet the same Erasure standard - a time-consuming and near impossible feat.
Then there’s the logistics - arranging couriers from employees homes, to Erasure vendors, to local storage facilities/your HQ. The process is admin-intensive, but involves high security and financial risk.
Hofy uses Blancco, an industry-certified Data Erasure tool. Blannco is widely recognized as the world-leader in Data Erasure solutions.
Through Blannco, Hofy permanently erases data to NIST 800-88 Purge standard, a US government document now widely adopted and recognized by governments and organizations alike as the most rigorous method for ensuring effective media sanitization.
A certificate is generated and uploaded to the Hofy platform automatically, so IT Teams can access this certificate at any time.
As we work towards total global coverage, we’re launching Certified Data Erasure today for devices being collected from the following regions:
To learn more about how Hofy simplifies IT security and compliance across the entire device lifecycle, book a call today.
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