An Evaluation of Data Erasing Tools
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
Edith Cowan University
Editor(s)
Andrew Woodard and Craig Valli
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
School of Computer and Security Science / Security Research Centre (secAU)
RAS ID
12288
Abstract
The permanent removal of data from computer disks has always been problematic. This has been due, in part, to the lack of availability of tools, and in part due to the misperception by the user that when a file is deleted it is destroyed and cannot be recovered and that when a disk is formatted, the data is destroyed. In this paper, we examine a number of the commonly available tools to determine how effectively they function and whether they achieve the aim of the effective destruction of data
DOI
10.4225/75/57b2c01440cef
Access Rights
free_to_read
Comments
Martin, T., & Jones, A. (2011). An Evaluation of Data Erasing Tools. Paper presented at the 9th Australian Digital Forensics Conference. Perth, WA. Available here