Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Any information that can be used to identify someone. Ex: Address, SSN, Credit Card Numbers, Telephone Numbers, etc. , Protected Health Information (PHI), Medical information such as patient record numbers, insurance numbers, lab results, etc. , Dumpster Diving, Attack performed by looking through trash or dumpsters for files or hard drives. , Cross Shredding, Data destruction method performed by shredding documents into small squares. , Certificate of Destruction (COD), Document provided by a third-party vendor that certifies that data was destroyed properly., Drilling, Data destruction method performed by drilling holes through drives. Can be cost effective but may be time-consuming. , Degaussing, Data destruction method performed by using a high strength magnet to destroy a hard drives internal structure. Does not work on SSDs. , Incineration, Data destruction method performed by placing files/drives in a hot furnace., Low-Level Formatting, AKA Zero-Filling. Erases all data on the drive, overwrites it with zeroes and makes it harder to recover data. , High-Level Formatting, Quick format designed to prepare a hard drive for reuse. Data is easier to recover from drives formatted using this method. .

2.9: Data Destruction Methods

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