t’s time to throw out the false assumption that data at the end of its life — whether it’s on assets or in live environments — is neither a major risk nor an opportunity for creating value. As our ongoing support for over 2,500 leading organizations worldwide shows, secure erasure is more than a check-box exercise in compliance. It is a strategic opportunity to develop robust systems that build trust, security, and value. With data protection mandates, security challenges, technologies, and sustainability reporting all evolving, all organizations need strategies and solutions that evolve at the same pace — protecting data and providing new opportunities for growth and greater efficiency

The solution is simple: if data is not needed for business or compliance purposes, eradicate it, wherever it’s stored. Return end-of-life devices and unnecessarily occupied areas of live storage environments to a datafree state of “blank.” Blank is mission critical because it permanently and completely erases data so you can reduce risk, increase compliance, operate more efÏciently, and hit sustainability goals. The following pages are your guide to developing a scalable data sanitization strategy