Top Five Things To Look For In A Secure File Deletion Utility

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There are many tools and utilities in the market that claim to achieve secure file deletion. While many of these tools are state-of-the-art pieces of software, there are many others that don’t deliver the expected results, both in quality of file deletion and in features offered. In order to let you make an informed and correct decision, here are some things you should look for in a secure file deletion application.

1- Reputability: The software vendor should ideally have a history of making and improving security software. The best software companies usually specialize and focus on a specific range of utilities, offering products that are designed for similar purposes. A company offering secure file deletion software may have other related products, like parental control software or firewalls, but will not offer, for instance, zip utilities, or imaging software.

2- Ease of use: What good is a piece of software if you have to struggle for fifteen minutes just to enable or disable a certain feature? The right secure file deletion tool will be easy to use, with all the available settings accessible from a single place, and with a clean and organized user interface that makes its learning curve almost inexistent.

3- Secure file deletion capabilities: The best tools usually employ not one but many different techniques to securely delete files. These may include from the simple file rewriting prior to deletion, to advanced methods for preventing remanent magnetization analysis.

4- Speed of operation: If you use a tool that makes you wait a ridiculously long time each time you securely delete a file, then chances are that you will stop using the tool, which will leave you unprotected. A good secure file deletion utility should perform its operations fast, ideally as fast as the regular Windows deletion, or at least be very close to that speed. Please keep in mind that secure file deletion uses more CPU power than regular deletion, because of the advanced algorithms used to prevent data recovery. Because of this, the speed of operation will also depend on your CPU power, not only on the tool itself.

5- Additional security features: The best secure file deletion tools around also offer a set of functions that are closely related or further improve deletion security. Remote file deletion is a great addition to any secure file deletion application, and other features like the ability to run in invisible mode and prevent unwanted access to the Windows task manager are a big plus.

Secure file deletion is a huge step towards data security, and choosing the right tool is essential. If you follow these simple precepts you are guaranteed to find the best tool for you.

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