"Coliseumc operate a total data security policy”

We conform to the highest industry standards; from collection by our own team through to secure storage and destruction or data wiping prior to recycling of equipment.We manage the process from start to finish; our audited systems protect your company and prevent any risk of your data being compromised.

Coliseum use the latest Blanco or Eurosoft approved programmes to ensure your data cannot be recovered with any current existing technology. They are guaranteed 100% secure for purging and erasing to the highest security requirements including “Secret” and “Top Secret” classified material.

If for any reason a hard drive cannot be securely wiped this will be reported to you and with your agreement the drive will be physically destroyed.

Data protection, One of the greatest concerns faced by our customers when disposing of their redundant IT equipment is the removal of personal and/or sensitive data contained within them. Not only are there obvious ramifications of sensitive company data falling into the wrong hands, but companies can and have been prosecuted under the recently updated 1998 Data Protection Act.

The 1998 Data Protection Act makes it a legal requirement to adopt appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorised access, alteration or accidental loss or destruction of personal data. Under the 1998 Data Protection Act, failure to remove personal data from a computer's hard drive may result in Crown Court prosecution and unlimited fines, to include personal compensation claims. The only way to permanently destroy data, without physically destroying the hard disk, is by multiple overwriting of the data by generating and recording random characters across the entire surface of the drive, resulting in all data being destroyed and file sizes reset to zero.

The current benchmark for overwriting data is an American Military standard known as DOD 5220.22-M, which overwrites the disc three times.

Coliseum uses the latest overwriting software that exceeds this standard and allows us to overwrite our customer's hard drives up to a maximum of ninety-nine times. In the event that a hard disc cannot be data erased or if it is below 3.0GB the drive will be shredded.