Are there any free products available to Clear or purge Data?
The short answer is NO. With utilities such as IEHPROGM, individual data sets or the entire VTOC can be scratched. However, that simply removes the pointer to each data set while leaving all the data on the disk. ICKDSF can perform a MINIMAL INIT to create a label and a new VTOC, but that leaves all the data on the disk as well. A MEDIAL INIT will re-write the Home Address and record zero but may still not render data unreadable. Consequently, it will not satisfy the standard for clearing or purging. These techniques also take a VERY long time. Xtinct: DSF/E Device Support Facilities/Extended In addition to providing a complete audit trail and comprehensive reports to satisfy regulators, XTINCT surpasses NIST guidelines for ‘cleaning’ and ‘purging’ data. Xtinct also satisfies all federal and international requirements including Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, HSPD-12, Basel II, SOX, Gramm-Leach-Bliley and other data security and privacy laws. • Xtinct is reentrant and fully supports subtasking.
