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It Sharps: Issues Relating To Securely Disposing Of Hard Disks From Medical Information Systems, Craig Valli
It Sharps: Issues Relating To Securely Disposing Of Hard Disks From Medical Information Systems, Craig Valli
Research outputs pre 2011
Organisations worldwide are failing to adequately erase data from hard disks before disposing of them. Recent studies have uncovered significant and highly confidential data from computer hard disks for sale in the second hand market using minimal foresic recovery techniques. Increasingly medical businesses are being required to use IT based systems to deliver or receive services. Also medical records are becoming electronic in nature and have significant secondary storage requirements. Given the increased use of IT in medical practice this paper examines the issues uncovered in the studies into recovery of remnant data from hard disks. The paper also explores …
A Uk And Australian Study Of Hard Disk Disposal, Craig Valli, Andrew Jones
A Uk And Australian Study Of Hard Disk Disposal, Craig Valli, Andrew Jones
Research outputs pre 2011
Recent studies in Australia and the United Kingdom indicate that a broad cross-section of organisations are failing to adequately protect or erase confidential data stored on hard disk drives before subsequent disposal. Over 90% of hard disks that were examined as a result of the two Independent studies were in an easily recoverable state with some drives simply requiring a boot. This paper will give an overview and comparison of the two studies conducted. Then an examination of possible factors responsible for the inadequate erasure of hard disk devices will be undertaken. Furthermore, possible future research directions will also be …
An Investigation Into The Efficiency Of Forensic Erasure Tools For Hard Disk Mechanisms, Craig Valli, Paul Patak
An Investigation Into The Efficiency Of Forensic Erasure Tools For Hard Disk Mechanisms, Craig Valli, Paul Patak
Research outputs pre 2011
One of the common anecdotal complaints used when defending the insecure erasure of hard disks is the length of time taken to affect a secure erasure. This paper discusses results of experiments conducted with Unix/Linux based hard disk wiping software when run on various machines and hard disk mechanisms in terms of size, speed and interface. The initial research has uncovered a range of issues and factors that affect the speed of erasure of hard disk mechanisms. Some of these factors included memory configuration and CPU but not in ways that were expected. This paper includes results from contemporary ATA …