Security Policy
CFS fully recognizes the importance of sanitizing the computer hard
drives we receive, whether or not they are suitable for refurbishment.
Our policy is that all donors sanitize their hard drives prior to
donating computers to CFS, to comply with PIPEDA legislation. Equipment
donated to the CFS program by the Federal Government is expected, as
per Treasury Board policy, to be sanitized before being declared
surplus.
CFS
provides a secondary level of assurance by sanitizing/ overwriting hard
drives as a part of the refurbishment process and does not assume any
liability for the inadvertent release of escape of information from
electronic media storage devices.
Equipment received
by CFS is sanitized using the RCMP's Disk Overwrite application as part
of our computer refurbishment process. Where hard drives cannot be
erased or reused due to age or condition, they are rendered inoperable
through physical destruction at Genesis Recycling, having gone through
a shredder.
Usage of the RCMP's DSX Disk Overwrite application is governed by the following documents:
Clearing and Declassifying Electronic Data Storage Devices (ITSG-06), CSE, dated March 2005
www.cse-cst.gc.ca/documents/publications/itsg-csti/itsg06-eng.pdf
RCMP Guidelines: http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/tsb/pubs/it_sec/g2-003_e.pdf
Hard Drive Secure Information Removal and Destruction Guidelines (G2-003), RCMP, October 2003.
www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/tsb/pubs/it_sec/g2-003_e.pdf
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