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Title: How to get certified for a hard drive you erased
Post by: HCK on January 25, 2020, 04:05:15 pm
How to get certified for a hard drive you erased

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<p>It’s relatively easy to erase the contents of a drive on a Mac. But what if you’re asked to prove you did so? Some companies, government agencies, and other organizations have an internal or legal requirement to erase drives securely. While the IT department may handle this at large organizations, you might be asked (as one reader was) to provide documentation before disposing of a company computer.</p><p>Fortunately, this isn’t an odd request. And it’s not terribly expensive even for an individual to conform to. There’s a category of software that’s available across many different platforms from many firms that is designed to not just perform erasure meeting a variety of industry or military standards, but can also produce a certification report at the end.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3514603/how-to-get-certified-for-a-hard-drive-you-erased.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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