European Financial Services Giant Assures Secure Data Destruction
A top-twenty European insurance and financial services provider with a global presence set out to refresh its disk storage technology in two data centres in Belgium. In keeping with corporate policy they needed to ensure that no data would be accessible once it left their control.
The systems included more than 850 hard disk drives from four disk subsystems, totalling 113TB. These drives required on-site data destruction to ensure that the information on the disks could not be compromised.
PeakData Services Limited worked closely with the Customer to assess their requirements and proposed an on-site Data Destruction Service that ensured compliance with corporate policy as well as applicable regulatory and legislative requirements regarding data protection, including those set forth in the European Union Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and Basel II.
PeakData Services Limited consultants initiated the engagement a the first data centre by removing each individual hard disk drive from the frames concerned and cataloguing every hard disk drive by its serial number and carrier serial number.
PeakData Services Limited then proceeded to render the data completely inaccessible and unrecoverable using an industry-standard degaussing methodology, while leveraging its verifiable, auditable, six sigma process. The hard disk drives were then placed back in the frames in the exact same slot location – a requirement of the disk storage vendor. The same process was used in the second data centre. The destruction of 113TB was completed within three (3) business days, ensuring that the information was rendered inaccessible to all applicable standards and complying with corporate policies.
The disk storage vendor was also presented with a copy of the report and notified that their disk storage systems could be removed safely.