Toshiba and Tier 1 are acutely aware that IT departments face increasing pressure to assure the confidentiality of corporate and client data. This confidentiality has always been an issue of ethical concern, but legislation to protect the privacy of individuals’ records has now made it a legal concern as well. Whilst you will have a strategy in place for securing information within your networks, there comes a time when your IT equipment is retired from active service and that is when a company can lose control over protecting the confidentiality of the company’s and individuals’ data.

Integrity through experience
With many years’ experience of managing the end of life IT assets of blue chip organisations on massive scales Tier 1 fully understands these needs and uses Blancco technology to ensure the following:

• 100% fast and secure erasure
• Digitally protected auditable reporting, meeting and exceeding any compliance or regulatory requirements concerning data erasure
• Data which has been erased by Blancco cannot be recovered with any existing technology

Our understanding of the issues faced by companies becomes even more pertinent when faced with the fact that more and IT equipment is coming offline every day. More is being reused and recycled than ever before and with growing emphasis on organisations’ corporate social responsibility, the final locations of your retired IT equipment are becoming increasingly diverse.

Security and legal compliance
The only way to prevent inadvertent file sharing, other than destruction and scrap, is to sanitise hard drives before they reach the equipment’s new owner. Tier 1 manages the costs and risks involved and ensures that all data is permanently erased before any equipment is re-used, re-marketed or recycled. In addition, recognising that our clients expose themselves to a multitude of legal, business and PR repercussions should any confidential data be leaked, our methods are scrupulously thorough, as one would expect of an organisation with CESG INFOSEC 5 accreditation, and we work to a standard that meets the US Department of Defence criteria. As part of our service, we provide a Certificate of Data Integrity.

As a registered data controller, Tier 1’s processes ensure that we they both meet and exceed the standards set out in the 1998 Data Protection Act. In order to confirm the integrity of their own procedure, Tier 1 are independently audited as the success of our data wiping process, providing even more peace of mind to our clients.