Hard Drives

Hard drives are often used to store sensitive information. To protect this information from unauthorized disclosure, sanitize hard drives prior to reusing, decommissioning, or disposing of them.

• Use disk-wiping tools such as the Oracle Solaris format (1M) command to completely erase all data from the disk drive.

• Organizations should refer to their data protection policies to determine the most appropriate method to sanitize hard drives.

• If required, take advantage of Oracle's Customer Data and Device Retention Service http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/data-retention-ds-405152.pdf