Data security

[tjv]

We had a question come up today that I hadn't thought of and was wondering what everyone here thinks about it.

Question:

With all the news about credit data being stolen from hard drives, what are we doing in the event that one of our servers drives go bad and IBM comes onsite to replace the drive? There could be sensitive data on these drives.

I wasn't sure how we would protect that data once the drive goes bad. I'm sure the drive gets refurbished but the data could potentially still be on the drive.

 

[MoreFeo]

In a previous company where I worked, no disks nor tapes went out of the server room without putting them on a magnetic eraser (except the of course the backup third copy, but these tapes were drive encrypted).

 

[khalidaaa]

You can encrypt your data but this will add an overhead to your process.

What kind of data is there? is it a database? if so then check to see if they provide some sort of security to that!

Regards,
Khalid