Company description::
Lafayette, OR. January 7, 2004. Storage Gadgets is a new company that specializes in production data sanitization. Any organization that donates, recycles, sells or otherwise disposes of computers without first sanitizing the drives, may expose themselves to regulatory risk and potential liability for the data contained in those computers.
With identity theft on the rise and increased privacy regulations (HIPPA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, etc.), companies are finding it necessary to ensure they do not unintentionally disclose confidential data through computer disposal. As IT departments face cost-cuts and diminishing staffs, data sanitization can “fall through the cracks”, as it is a time consuming process.
According to a Gartner research paper, “Many enterprises have paid a high price in costs, regulatory fines, bad publicity and even litigation when their PCs turned up in landfills or third-world countries, or when confidential data was recovered from hard drives that had not been properly sanitized," said O'Brien. "Nowhere is it specified that if an enterprise disposes its PCs in an environmentally unsafe manner that a certain amount of money per PC will charged, but some enterprises claim that they have paid as much as $200,000 in fines."
One hard drive can take several hours to properly sanitize. Storage Gadgets sanitizes hard drives using methods that comply with Department of Defense standards (DOD 5220.22-M) at its secured facility. Because they specialize in data sanitization, they have resources dedicated to cost-effective and efficient sanitization.
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