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Standards of guaranteed destruction of confidential information
The software offers the guaranteed destruction of confidential information on
hard disk drives with the help of special methods.
Acronis methods guarantee compliance with most national standards:
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American: U.S. Standard, DoD 5220.22-M
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American: NAVSO P-5239-26 (RLL)
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American: NAVSO P-5239-26 (MFM)
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German: VSITR
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Russian: GOST P50739-95
Besides methods corresponding to national standards, Acronis supports
predefined methods proposed by widely known and authoritative specialists in
the field of information security:
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Peter Gutmann's method – data on hard disk is destroyed with 35 passes
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Bruce Schneier's method – data is destroyed with 7 passes
The suite also supports simple but fast methods for information destruction that
zero all sectors on a single hard disk pass.
Another major feature of this version is the opportunity for you to create your
own methods for data destruction.
Detailed information on data destruction standards is given in Appendix A «Hard
Disk Wiping methods» to the current guide.
What's new in Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 7.0?
Acronis Privacy Expert Suite has lots of new features that make it an integrated
software suite. They include:
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Spyware clean-up
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Guaranteed data destruction on selected hard drives and partitions
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Pop-up blocking for convenient Web surfing
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Selected e-mail deletion in Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express along
with contact list and address book clean-up
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Browsed URLs clean-up
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Forms autocomplete and password lists clean-up
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Convenient paging file clean-up wizard
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Quick user files and folders clean-up through Windows Explorer interface or
context menu
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Software actions logging
Additionally, improvements have been made to provide even more convenience
in Acronis Privacy Expert Suite.
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