Technical Term Definitions

D.O.D. Wiping
DOD wiping is a standard that the Department of Defense created to ensure data on their hard drives was unrecoverable. The process involves storing random data over top of the contents of the entire hard drive. The more this is done, the less recoverable the sensitive information is. DOD 5220.22-M (the US DoD security manual) requires that the drive be overwritten three times, but more is better.