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Erase Data from Hard Drives – When selling, donating, or returning the leased IT
assets such as laptops, computers, PCs, etc. you should ensure to erase data from the
hard drives.

Now, as this is not possible with permanent deletion or formatting, you ought to use a
professional third-party software that erases data permanently without leaving any scope
for recovery.

Now that you are aware of the various ways by which you can keep your valuable data safe,
secure, and protected from Online Identity Theft, you can go for those as per your need.

If online identity theft is caused by selling, donating, disposing off, or returning leased IT assets
that leads to data leakage, the best way forward is to use a professional data erasure software.

The Way Forward: Online Identity Theft Protection

To protect yourself from Online Identity Theft challenge (caused due to data leakage from sold,
donated, disposed-off, or returned leased IT assets) use a professional third-party data erasure
software. A plethora of such software is available in market.

Therefore, ensure that the software you choose is a sure-shot solution to the challenge faced, is
capable of erasing data completely beyond recovery, is managed and certified guaranteeing
permanent and 100% removal of data.

Plus, if it abides by internationally recognized sanitization standards while offering reliability,
effectiveness, and efficiency the risk of data recovery would be alleviated completely. in short, it
keeps your personal data protected, safe, and secure!

Well, BitRaser, DBAN (Darik’s Boot and Nuke), Disk Wipe, Secure Erase for SSDs, Blancco 5,
and more are the eminent data erasure software available in the market.

You can try their demo version to understand their full functionalities.

About The Author

Manish Bhickta is a product marketer who worked for Stellar Data Recovery.
He was in cybersecurity arena since last 3 years and raises a war against
data breach and other online malicious activities.

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