Destroying Hard Drives

Network World recently published an interesting article about a practice at Google. It turns out they keep rigorous track of all their hard drives, and when they are no longer needed they shred and destroy them to prevent any chance of data leakage.

At first glance this practice sounds like almost overkill, but in this day and age of continual security breaches, this practice may actually turn out to be the safe and prudent one to follow, and certainly only the tip of the iceberg in terms of security practices you can follow to prevent data leakage at your organization.

We've talked previously here on this blog about DLP (data leakage protection) solutions that tie into your existing web proxies using the ICAP protocol. This article on hard drive destruction to prevent data leakage is a good reminder to look into DLP solutions for your proxy if you haven't done so already.