Richard is regularly featured in news publications such as Forbes, Dark Reading, Infosecurity Magazine, Network World and BetaNews, where he comments on data governance, data management, and cyber security. His book, There Will Be Cyberwar, was named a Washington Post bestseller in April 2016. Currently, Richard is a cyber security lecturer at Charles Sturt University in Australia and a strategic advisory member of the International Data Sanitization Consortium. Security executive Richard Stiennon has previously held roles such as Chief Strategy Officer of Blancco Technology Group from 2016-2017 and Vice President of Research at Gartner Inc. Read more to learn about how the DoD data overwriting standard applies today. This “3-pass” procedure is designed to prevent data from being recovered by commercially available processes.īut is the DoD 5220.22-M standard ((or, the longer DoD 5220.22-M ECE standard) the best wiping method for your organization?

It must then be followed by verification. When vendors state that their solutions meet the DoD 5220.22-M “standard,” it typically means that their software will write to all addressable hard drive locations with a character, its complement and a random character.

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