Certified Erasure

Most people know about the “Recycle Bin” in Windows Operating systems – it all started in Windows 95 (If you don’t, look it up – it may save your life one day). Even though the file was deleted, with the click of a button it can be restored back to its former glory without any changes being made to it along the way!

Now, you would be excused for thinking that once you delete it from the Recycle bin, that its gone forever! Unsurprisingly it’s not that simple…If we want to, we can follow this trick all the way back until we format the entire hard drive. Even then, with relatively cheap or even free software, this can be restored by someone with next to no knowledge of data recovery or repair.

Data isn’t something that can be deleted, only overwritten or physically destroyed. This can be a time consuming and expensive affair if you get it wrong. The ICO can impose large fines for being careless with the data you are discarding.

Not only do Secure IT Services take this process over, saving you time and money actually doing the work, we indemnify you against any comeback from a data breach. By issuing you with a certificate, we guarantee the data is gone forever, giving you complete peace of mind that we have eliminated every single fragment of information residing on that device.