Most of my clients that I have dealt with so far need to adhere to strict information security enforcement in order to protect consumers from identity theft and my clients themselves from data theft, loss of business, lawsuits etc. One major part of these security checkpoints is eliminating all possible threats of data theft on hard-drives that have been decommissioned from use.

In order to comply with industry standards, a great tool to start out with is Enterprise Boot and Nuke (”EBAN”). From The Official Website: EBAN 2.0 is the enterprise version of DBAN (Consumer Grade) and it’s built on the same proven core. However, EBAN 2.0 for Mass Drive Wiping (formerly called EBAN 2.0 for Data Destruction Appliances) has two very important additions— serialized reporting and network booting for simultaneous multi-drive wiping.

This tool covers compliance issues from a data protection and privacy laws that are currently enforced in the US. You are able to get a 14-day free trial to test out the software.