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Clear uses supported read/write commands, techniques, and tools to overwrite data in accessible storage locations with nonsensitive data.
Technology Recovery Resources
Start with the question in front of you.
Use Galide’s process guidance, planning inputs, and proof references to prepare a recovery project and understand what should be recorded at closeout.
Find the right starting point
Practical guidance for the next decision.
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How the Recovery Process Works
See how Assess, Secure, Recover, and Document connect the available inventory to a defined device outcome.
Explore resource →02Proof, Records, and Data Erasure
Review Galide’s confirmed credentials, NIST SP 800-88 approach, named records, and exception-accountability model.
Explore resource →03Remote Return Planning
Understand the information needed to track distributed returns by employee and serial number, report non-returns, review redeployment readiness, and route exceptions.
Explore resource →04Recovery Review Preparation
Prepare the inventory, timing, locations, operating constraints, and intended outcomes that help define an accountable recovery scope.
Explore resource →Asset-list starting point
A complete inventory helps, but it is not required to begin planning.
Include the fields available today:
- Manufacturer and model
- Serial number or asset tag
- Quantity
- Current location
- Condition, if known
- Device user or holder for remote-return programs
- Target timing
- Intended next outcome or internal requirement
Do not send an asset list through the website until an approved secure-intake route is available. Keep the file in your organization’s approved system or use an existing trusted Galide contact channel.
NIST SP 800-88
The method follows the media and required outcome.
Galide securely erases all data using the relevant NIST SP 800-88-compliant disk-wipe protocol. Every processed data-bearing device receives a Certificate of Data Destruction and is included in the Serialized Erasure Report.
Purge
Purge uses a supported physical or logical technique—such as overwrite, block erase, or cryptographic erase—to make target-data recovery infeasible using state-of-the-art laboratory methods.
Named closeout assets
Broad assurances are easier to evaluate when the records are named.
Chain-of-Custody Record
Connects device receipt and movement to the agreed workflow.
Certificate of Data Destruction
Records the completed data outcome for each processed data-bearing device.
Serialized Erasure Report
Reconciles each processed data-bearing device with its erasure result.
Recovery and Exception Report
Records condition, recovery readiness, final routes, and approved exceptions where those activities are in scope.
Exception Register
Identifies an issue, current status, authorized reviewer, and approved next step.
Quote-to-Settlement Reconciliation
Explains differences between the written quote and audited result line by line for recovery-value projects.
Practical details
Questions before you start
Where should we begin?
Start with How It Works for the operating model, then prepare the available asset information, locations, timing, and intended outcome for the project.
Do we need a complete asset list to use these resources?
No. A partial inventory or approximate count is enough to begin planning. Serialized information becomes more important as the project moves toward execution and closeout.
Which records apply to our project?
The agreed scope identifies the records required for the device population, data-erasure route, recovery outcomes, exceptions, and commercial terms.
Are sample reports or downloadable guides available here?
Not in the current website release. No public sample report or downloadable guide is promised until the asset, access route, and publication approval are confirmed.