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/gov-pubs/itsg/itsg06.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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