Paragon Disk Wiper in Bank St. Petersburg

Directorates on security and information technologies of St. Petersburg Bank uses the technical license for Paragon Disk Wiper 10 Professional for prevention of leak of corporate information in all 35 branches and offices of bank in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kaliningrad and Nizhny Novgorod.

Paragon Software Group, the leading developer of software solutions and technologies for management and safety of data, announces use of the software solution Paragon Disk Wiper 10 Professional by one of the largest financial institutions of North-West Region of Russia, St. Petersburg Bank, for the guaranteed removal of confidential corporate information without a possibility of recovery from the computers transferred to charity in repair and on utilization.

The problem of leak of corporate information more and more sharply rises in business market and especially for financial and public institutions today. Complete and reliable cleaning of the hard drive before its utilization or by transfer to other organizations is crucial transaction for each company. But standard procedures of removal or formatting do not give a guarantee that financial statements, confidential documents, passwords, data on employees and other information will not get into strange hands.

The third largest bank of the Northern Capital, St. Petersburg, actively is engaged in charity, one of the directions of which – transfer of the operable computer hardware which is released in the course of periodic updating of the computer park of bank, to orphanages and other budgetary institutions. The preparation for transfer of this equipment connected with destruction of information on hard drives always took considerable time the staff of Directorate on information technologies (DIT) of bank. Besides, the recyclable machinery and equipment, transferred to repair to the organizations with which the agreement on confidentiality is not signed, also always need careful removal of information.

Earlier specialists of DIT of bank solved this problem available means of operating systems. However for the purpose of receiving a guarantee of removal of information, increase in efficiency of IT specialists, economy of finance and labor costs, the decision on acquisition of the technical license for Paragon Disk Wiper 10 Professional was made.

Paragon Disk Wiper 10 Professional is the hi-tech, certified means of removal of confidential corporate information without a possibility of recovery. Two options of boot drives Paragon Disk Wiper 10 Professional – based on WinPE or Linux – ensure functioning practically on any equipment. The boot carrier which can be created on the USB drive or an optical disk allows to execute operations on overwriting of data in the usual interface.

"Paragon Disk Wiper 10 Professional not only guarantees complete removal of information from the hard drive, but also that is especially convenient, does not require installation on computers of the copies for removal of information. One boot carrier on all computers prepared for transfer suffices. It is not necessary to disassemble recyclable computers any more to reach the information medium. All this considerably saves time and resources, – Vitaly Nasonov, the chief specialist of department of information security of St. Petersburg bank shared. – Besides, the algorithm of transaction of the guaranteed removal of information of this software solution is certified by GOST that is very important for bank as requirements of the Central bank, GOST and other regulating organizations in the field of certification of software solutions in the financial sector are especially strict".

The legislation in the field of data protection for the present does not oblige financial institutions to use the certified means for removal of confidential information. However the legislation actively develops, and, perhaps, in the near future this requirement will become one of obligatory. Then the management to the bank conducting forward-looking policy in the field of data protection should not rebuild work of IT department in an emergency order: this aspect of information security is already regulated and implemented in daily activity.