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What is the DSS Consultancy’s Data Erasure service overview?

We offer Data Erasure services to securely and permanently erase data from electronic devices. These services are often used by businesses and individuals to securely dispose of old or unwanted electronic devices, such as computers, smartphones, and tablets. The Data Erasure process involves overwriting the data on the device multiple times, making it impossible to recover.

We also provides certification together with notation that the data has been permanently erased, which can be important for regulatory compliance or security purposes. Data Erasure services are particularly important for businesses and organizations that handle sensitive or confidential information, as it ensures that the data cannot be accessed or recovered by unauthorized individuals.

What is the DSS Consultancy’s Data Erasure service overview?

We offer Data Destruction services to physically destroy hard drives in order to permanently erase data stored on them. These services are often used by businesses and individuals to securely dispose of old, end of life or unwanted hard drives, particularly when the data stored on them is sensitive or confidential.

The Data Destruction process typically renders the hard drive completely unusable and the data stored on it unrecoverable. We also provide certification of the destruction process, which can be important for regulatory compliance or security purposes. Data Destruction services are an important consideration for businesses and organizations that handle sensitive data, as it ensures that the data cannot be accessed or recovered by unauthorized individuals.

What is a penalty for failure to comply with the Thai PDPA?

Failure to comply with the PDPA could result in civil liabilities with punitive damages, administrative fines of up to THB 5 million (approx. €133,800), and criminal penalties which include imprisonment for up to one year, or a fine of up to THB 1 million (approx. €26,600), or both.

Why DSS Consultancy?

We offer PDPA compliance procedures and softwares to give you a peace of mind. With third-party notary public seal of authentification to ensure the process meet PDPA requirement, together with authentification Certificate generated by our erasure software.

What assets need to be sanitized?

  • Computer
  • Notebook
  • Tablet
  • Mobile
  • CDs and DVDs
  • Hard Drives
  • Optical and Flash Drives, e.g. thumb drives and memory storage cards

What is physical data destruction?

To positively prevent data from recovery; disks can be removed from disk drives and broken up, or even ground to microscopic pieces. DoD 5220.22M recommends degaussing followed by physical destruction of the storage medium (the magnetic disks) for data classified higher than Secret. Even such physical destruction is not absolute if any remaining disk pieces are larger than a single 512-byte record block in size, about 1/125” in today’s drives. As linear and track densities increases, the maximum allowable size of disk fragments become ever smaller. Destroyed disk fragments of this size can be image restored by magnetic microscopy.

Some storage products are more easily destroyed than hard disk drives, such as magnetic disk data cartridges, tape cartridges, secure USB drives, and optical media.

What is non-destruction data or data erasure?

Non-destructive data erasure supports wiping and permanently cleaning for all traces of deleted files and folder, administrator documents and other similar files or folders for maintaining computer privacy and enhancing system performance. It deletes all the data, free space, slack space, deleted memory chunks of data even if they’re not existing in a file, removes huge files stored on HDD of Windows OS and any removable media and cannot be recovered or restored by any data recovery software.

What is a Data Sanitization?

Data Sanitization is the process of erasing (sanitizing) or destroying sensitive information in storage devices to meet legal compliance requirements thereby protecting user data from unauthorized use.
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