Nymity: Interview with the Experts about Vernon Technology Solutions

Nymity is a company that deals with Privacy Compliance, Privacy Risk Management, and Privacy Research. The problem faced by the world is that there are too many small and unstructured security and privacy systems. Nymity is attempting to create a more all-encompassing set of privacy standards. To accomplish this goal Nymity provides free resources and interviews with experts in the field.

Vernon Technology Solutions’ Hard Disk Crusher was recently discussed in one of the interviews. To see the article, please click here.

To quickly draw attention to key issues:

The interview was with Craig Morris - Senior Network Administrator at Maritz Canada Inc.  The interview was published in November 2008 and the subject was - Best Practices in Disk Destruction

A few key ideas Morris brought out were:

• Crushing significantly reduced the time for security that otherwise would have been used wiping drives with software.
• Crushing took seconds per drive
• The Crusher is portable and can come to you, so your secure and private information never has to leave your property 
•  Vernon Technology Solutions deals with Environmental disposal and recycling as well as Hard Disk Crushing. 
•  Certification of Destruction is presented after service is completed

And a few quotations from Morris as a summary

1. “We chose the Hard Drive Crusher service from Vernon Technologies as we figured this would be a more certain solution for destroying the data and also protecting the privacy of our clients. By crushing the server hard drives, we were able to cut down on the man hours that would have been spent wiping these drives using software.”
2.  ”… I’ve seen and used utilities that can recover data from a hard drive even after it has been reformatted. Some of these utilities are even offered free on the Internet. Of course we could wipe the drive according to US DOD standards, but again it comes down to TIME. “
3. “I definitely would recommend these services. Any company that is concerned about the privacy of their data and that of their clients would benefit from this type of service. In times when identify theft and corporate espionage is prevalent, we need to take every precaution to protect ourselves and clients.”

Here at Vernon, we would like to thank Craig Morris for his kind words. But you don’t have to accept his advice blindly. We invite you all to visit the Vernon Hard Disk Crusher Site at www.vernoncrusher.ca or to contact a Vernon Technology Solutions staff member at the location nearest you.