Benefits

Our degausser products are designed for all users who are required to follow the stringent standards of the Department of Defense and the federal government. Our products also meet the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act for health care agencies and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act for financial institutions. We work closely with the National Security Agency (NSA) to design and develop degausser equipment capable of erasing and sanitizing all magnetic storage media. The NSA tests degaussers to ensure the degaussers meet stringent erase requirements for high coercivity media in order to prevent the inadvertent disclosure of classified or sensitive information. The NSA publishes an approved degausser products list.

For over twenty years, Data Security has proven that process is better than force to completely and uniformly erase your hard disk or magnetic tape media. Therefore, our specifications list the coercivity of the media our degaussers have proved to securely erase and not the strength of the magnetic field produced.

Government

Benefits of Data Security Degaussers

Guarantee Secure Erasure
- Utilize the preferred method of sanitization by the Department of Defense à Degaussing
- Ensure data unrecoverable by using the appropriate NSA-Approved degausser
Minimize Risk
- Sanitize excess classified media and store as unclassified
- Eliminate additional handling of excess magnetic media
- Avoid using unsecured storage spaces for excess media
Increase Savings
- Reduce Back-up Tape Expenses
  - Degauss excess back-up tapes for use in other environments
  - Reuse tapes in unclassified environments
  - Avoid confiscation of tapes into classified control due to spillage
  - Reduce the expense of replacing unclassified tapes due to spillage
- Reduce Disk Media Expenses
  - Stop destroying crashed hard drives under warranty
  - Recover cost of hard disk drives under warranty
- Reduce Labor and Administrative Costs
  - Decrease inventory management of excess media
  - Eliminate unapproved methods of sanitization
  - Avoid shipping media off-site for destruction
- Recycle
  - Recycle hard disk drive components
  - Increase cost savings provided by secure erasure
  - Do the right thing
- Save Time
  - Sanitize media in 60 seconds or less

Commercial

Benefits of Data Security Degaussers

Meet Privacy Act Requirements

Federal privacy laws like HIPAA and GLBA were enacted to ensure that personally identifiable health and financial information remains confidential. Device and media controls, in privacy laws, govern the receipt and removal of hardware and electronic media in the disposal and reuse phases. Degaussers approved by the National Security Agency guarantee complete erasure and therefore, eliminate liabilities associated with disclosure of sensitive information on magnetic tapes and hard drives.

Reduce Risk

Remove potentially damaging e-mails, proprietary information, sensitive customer information, and financial data
Prevent information retrieval by data recovery services or software.
Eliminate merging customer information by degaussing back-up tapes before reuse

Save Money & Time

Erase failed hard drives (without voiding the original manufacturer’s warranty) prior to return to manufacturer for warranty repair or replacement
Minimize liabilities

Safeguard against dumpster divers

Avoid loss of revenue due to media lost during transport, employee theft, and improper destruction procedures (e.g., unapproved degausser, non-DoD approved destruction methods)
Reduce labor resources

Overwriting is less effective and more time-consuming than degaussing
Physical destruction is more labor-intensive and less effective than degaussing

"If you have responsibility for security, but have no authority to set rules or punish violators, your own role in the organization is to take the blame when something big goes wrong." -- Professor Gene Spafford, 1996