Phil Kabler reports:
A random audit of state computers up for sale through the Surplus Property division found that an initiative to assure that all hard drives are wiped clean is working, a report released Tuesday shows.
Chief Technology Officer Kyle Schafer told a legislative interim committee that the policy was adopted in 2006, after spot-checks of computers sent to Surplus Property found many contained confidential and personal data on their hard drives.
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Schafer said the policy includes a fail-safe provision of having an Office of Technology staffer on site full-time at the Surplus Property warehouse to verify that all computers have been “wiped” of all data.
About 3,000 personal computers and laptops are sent to Surplus Property each year.
Read more in the Charleston Gazette.