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data is an important part of modern life. From personal record keeping to communications, healthcare and work. Every person generates data either for them or about them. And today when many companies and government agencies store data, they must keep that data protected throughout the entire data life cycle. That includes the end of life cycle. Data destruction. What is data destruction? Data destruction is the act of a racing or permanently destroying records. This information may be in a physical form such as paper printouts or it may be in digital form such as a USB drive, smartphone or computer. If so many agencies are trying to retain information, why would you want to destroy it? There are several reasons. The most common reason is that the data is no longer needed. The longer a piece of data is kept, the greater the chance that a data breach will expose it by destroying data when it's no longer needed, you stop it from being exposed. Later companies may also destroy data as part of the data lifecycle. Certain regulations, such as the EU General data protection regulation put strict limits on how long data can be kept. Data is routinely kept for 2-7 years and then destroyed. To prevent a later breach. Data may also be destroyed when you get rid of old equipment such as laptops. When you're discarding equipment, you need to destroy records stored on it before the equipment is recycled. So how does data destruction actually work? First? Think about physical documents? When data containing documents need to be disposed of throwing them in the garbage isn't enough Hackers have been known to pick through garbage cans to find useful information. At minimum, documents containing sensitive data must be shredded at work. Use a company approved shredder or disposal service at home. Consider using a crosscut or micro cut shredder which produces very small pieces that are difficult to reassemble. Second, consider virtual documents and files simply removing a documents icon to the recycling bin doesn't actually delete it. Take a USB drive for instance, when you delete a file from a USB drive, it doesn't actually disappear. It's just hidden from view. A skilled hacker can still find that data on the drive to ensure files are permanently deleted. Talk to your security team, they use advanced deletion tools that can ensure all data on your device is truly erased and unrecoverable if the equipment itself is also being destroyed, there are other options as well. Third, when equipment is being destroyed, a process called de glossing is helpful digos. Ng uses a powerful magnet to disrupt the magnetic field of the storage medium and destroy the stored data. De gassing is excellent for swift data destruction but using it on a hard drive, renders that drive inoperable. In general practice drives are removed and the cost before the equipment itself is disposed of. This is relevant for more than just computers, cameras, photocopiers and many more pieces of consumer equipment contain hard drives that need to be erased before discarding the actual physical equipment may be recycled for parts, or physically destroyed by smashing, burning or pulverizing.