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How do I securely destroy digital media that contains sensitive information?
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Frequently Asked Questions, Security, Sensitive Information, Service Catalog on March 10, 2012
Tufts University has an agreement with Cintas, a Document Management company that offers mobile media shredding services. If you have sensitive information that you would like to destroy on digital media such as floppy disks, zip disk, CDs, DVDs, or Hard Disks, please contact the Office of Information Technology. Cintas offers secure shredding onsite shredding [...]
Operating System Imaging
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Desktop Computing & Printing, Service Catalog on April 7, 2011
OIT provides a service for Research computers connected to Scientific equipment. Once a computer has been configured by a vendor, OIT will capture a full “image” or backup of the Operating System on the computer that can be recovered should the hard drive ever fail. The benefit of having a full backup is in the [...]