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Hi
any know any software will destroy Data and generate Report if any one know do let me know thanks.

Hi
Thanks Ck but this software is not creating any Report after Data Erase i need any software which Erase Data and Create Report of Destroyed Data if any one know like this software please let me know thanks.

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microsoftengineer wrote:Hi
Thanks Ck but this software is not creating any Report after Data Erase i need any software which Erase Data and Create Report of Destroyed Data if any one know like this software please let me know thanks.

what is the use of the report if ur wiping ur data?
unless ur clients requested proof of deletion and that there is no way to get it back.
otherwise through the hdd from the 3rd. floor and its gone

microsoftengineer wrote:Hi
any know any software will destroy Data and generate Report if any one know do let me know thanks.

Have you looked at Blancco software?

http://www.blancco.com

A few years ago, I was involved in the evaluation of various data erasure products for a large corporate, and Blancco products were selected (instead of several other well-known names) at the end of that process; partly due to their functionality, partly due to their certification by government bodies in many countries, and partly due to the audit report which the software generated (which this corporate customer required).

Hope that info helps you as a starting point...

Blancco is overated. It fails lots of drives for no real reason where other products pass.

And only certain Blancco products are "Certified" ;o)

guru wrote:Blancco is overated. It fails lots of drives for no real reason where other products pass.

I have no reason to defend Blancco, but the evaluation report which I saw indicated that some other erasure products sometimes did not list drives as an erasure failure, when there was a good reason to do so! Who says the behaviour of the "other products" which you mention, is "correct"?

It all depends on the definition of "real reason". If any erasure software can't be sure that the drive is erased to meet the required erasure standard (e.g. some blocks found to be unreadable after erasure, meaning that erasure of those blocks cannot be confirmed), then listing the drive as an erasure failure is an appropriate reaction IMHO - otherwise what is the point of the certification and audit report, if all blocks were not definitely erased?!

If you have a specific example of a Blancco erasure log where it screwed-up in some way, then I'm interested to learn from that evidence, so that I can warn others of the specific problem when I'm answering any similar question in future. Without that info, it's impossible to know whether Blancco actually screwed-up, or whether it made a [IMHO] better (e.g. more justifyable, or more cautious) decision about listing the erasure as a failure, than the "other products" which you mention.

guru wrote:And only certain Blancco products are "Certified" ;o)

Interesting, I didn't know that, thanks. That wasn't an issue when I was involved, since whatever Blancco product was being evaluated at that time, was certified to the (US and European) standards required by the corporate customer. But this point might be important for the OP.

I don't want to go onto too much detail. But B1ancco does fail perfectly good drives sometimes (no G-list entries). Maybe it's a random blip in the code. But that's from what I hear from behind closed doors within the data security industry (Maybe it's Engineer error?).

I don't use B1ancco but will ask for a report next time we are sent a batch of failed B1ancco drives for erasure.


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Who says the behaviour of the "other products" which you mention, is "correct"?

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Well that is why you buy a certified product :O)

The only current certified product by B1ancco is "Blancco HMG Software v4.10"