Verify Data is Destroyed
Every drive eventually leaves custody, through decommissioning, transfer, platform loss, or reuse, and what it carries at that moment is a decision the program makes in advance. Standard SSD sanitization commands do not by themselves prove that every block was destroyed, which is why high-assurance guidance such as NSA/CSS Policy Manual 9-12 has historically answered the question with physical destruction.
Cigent verified data sanitization offers a provable alternative for the cases your policy allows it to govern: patented firmware-level verification that checks the drive block by block and continues erasing under policy until destruction is confirmed, aligned with NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2.
Crypto erase destroys the encryption key required to access encrypted data. The encrypted data remains on the storage device but is effectively impossible to decrypt. Crypto erase executes in milliseconds making it ideal in emergencies.
Block erasure erases solid-state drives (SSDs) by using the drive's internal functions to erase each block electrically. Block erasure permanently deletes data on an SSD.
Patented firmware capability provides block-by-block analysis of the drive to ensure all data has been permanently erased. Policy can continue to erase data until confirmation that all data has been destroyed.
Cigent provides the option of initiating execution commands locally or remotely. Cigent provides an enterprise management console deployed locally or in the cloud and a Command Line Interface (CLI) to execute erasure.
