Blancco Celebrates 15 Years of Data Erasure Software

Blancco Oy Ltd is celebrating
15 years at the forefront of data erasure technology and management processes.

As identity theft and fraud proliferate, along with regulations designed to
prevent them, Blancco’s erasure technology has become the choice in
data protection for global defense, government, banking, healthcare, IT and
electronics reseller organizations. With annual growth rates of 25 to 30%,
Blancco now has offices in 13 countries around the world.

"The digital universe
doubles every 18 months, while the types of electronic devices multiply,
issuing organizations an ongoing challenge to securely manage data erasure
processes for equipment they wish to reuse, resell or dispose," said
Kim Väisänen, CEO and co-founder of Blancco. "With our full portfolio of erasure solutions, Blancco is committed to
working alongside businesses of all sizes to help manage these challenges with
automated erasure and centralized reporting processes."

Blancco traces its roots to 1997 when a Finnish hospital
accidentally sold a PC containing medical records of 3,000 patients. In
response, Väisänen and another young entrepreneur created data erasure software
that securely wiped HDDs. Today, products erase equipment ranging from
servers and PCs to smartphones and complex data center equipment. Tens of
thousands of IT assets are being erased worldwide each day.

Additionally, Blancco has independent third party
certifications and approvals and recently received Common
Criteria certification, an international standard for computer security.
Blancco’s certifications, approvals and recommendations indicate that its data
erasure tools meet the criteria for removing data, as verified
by laboratory tests. They are also critical for organizations that want to do
business in a particular industry or with a government.

"The recent growth of
compliance and legislative requirements in data security demonstrates that the
management of secure data erasure will become even more critical in the next
few years," said Väisänen. "Just
as we were committed to helping organizations manage these ever-increasing
challenges over the last 15 years, we look forward to supporting the industry’s
needs in the decades ahead."