Know your gear
Use VeriDrive to independently verify that drives and media have been wiped properly, leaving no recoverable data, to ensure the security of your information. IT asset disposition can involve complex chains of custody and reporting requirements. Especially when starting, changing, or auditing a disposal process, it is important to verify that your data is being wiped correctly. While many data erasure tools include algorithms for verifying that a drive was wiped, it is possible that this software has a bug or that it wasn't used properly. Having a separate person use an independently developed tool to prove your data was wiped is an important step to ensuring the integrity of your audit and is required by the NIST 800-88 requirements. VeriDrive's pattern verification code was written by a separate software engineer and using a different algorithm than WipeDrive. This separation allows you to verify that WipeDrive (or another wiping tool) was used properly to erase your data and comply with NIST 800-88 requirements. VeriDrive scans your drive and examines the bit patterns that were written by the wiping software to make sure the drive no longer contains recoverable data.