Scrubbing The Hard Drive; Scrubbing The Contents Of The Hard Drive - Cisco 7010 Installation Manual

Scrubbing the Hard Drive

You can securely scrub the hard drive on Management Centers and Firepower devices to ensure that its
contents can no longer be accessed. For example, if you need to return a defective appliance that contains
sensitive data, you can use this feature to overwrite the data.

Scrubbing the Contents of the Hard Drive

This mode of scrubbing the disk meets the following military standard:
Caution Scrubbing your hard drive results in the loss of all data on the appliance, which is rendered inoperable.
You scrub the hard drive using an option in the interactive menu described in
to Restore an Appliance, page
To scrub the hard drive:
Follow the instructions in one of the following sections to display the restore utility's interactive menu,
Step 1
depending on how you are accessing the appliance:
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From the main menu, select
Step 2
When prompted, confirm that you want to scrub the hard drive.
Step 3
The hard drive is scrubbed. The scrub process may take several hours to complete; larger drives take
longer.
STANDARDS
The DoD scrub sequence is compliant with the DoD 5220.22-M procedure for sanitizing removable
and non-removable rigid disks which requires overwriting all addressable locations with a character,
its complement, then a random character, and verify. Please refer to the DoD document for
additional constraints.
Access: Admin
Starting the Restore Utility Using KVM or Physical Serial Port, page 8-4
Starting the Restore Utility Using Lights-Out Management, page 8-5
8 Wipe Contents of Disk
A P P E N D I X
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Firepower 7000 and 8000 Series Installation Guide
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Using the Interactive Menu
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