Asked by Deija Williams on May 27, 2024
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What do you do with crashed mechanical hard drives that contain sensitive data from a government finance company?
A) Donate them to a local college or school
B) Use a drive overwrite program,drill holes through the platters,and then use a hammer to further destroy the pieces
C) Use a data vacuum
D) Use the cipher command
Mechanical Hard Drives
Devices used for storing data, utilizing spinning disks and a read/write head to access data.
Sensitive Data
Information that is considered private or confidential, including financial, personal, or proprietary data, which requires protection.
Drive Overwrite Program
Software designed to securely erase data from a hard drive by overwriting existing information with patterns of meaningless data, ensuring the original data is unrecoverable.
- Determine appropriate procedures for hardware disposal containing sensitive data.
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Learning Objectives
- Determine appropriate procedures for hardware disposal containing sensitive data.
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