Information Security

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Fri 29 Feb 2008

Happy Bonus Day

Posted under Business, Computers, Information Security, Life
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Yes that is right, an extra day this month! This day only comes every 4 years, less the years divisible by 100 (Read more on Wikipedia)… So celebrate the Leap Year and give your employees and consultants a small bonus! They are the ones who help keep your business running, and without them where would you be?

Anyway, that is just me being sleep deprived… My client, Global Creditors Network, recently signed on a sub-tenant so being the stellar IT Consultant I am; I welcomed the company’s IT Consultant “with open arms” so-to-speak. I am helping the company settle in and assisting with their infrastructure setup. It has been pretty stressful and tiring for me, so I bet their consultant is about 100 times worse than how I feel.

So that has pretty much been my week this week, once this is over I will be back on track. Many things are about ready to rock-and-roll, so I am starting to get excited! I will have more updates soon!

 

Mon 27 Aug 2007

Securing Decommissioned Hard-Drives Before Disposal

Posted under Computers, Information Security
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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.