
However, because the DoD standard has been around since the 1990s, some of its requirements are no longer up-to-date with today’s changing technology and security needs. The goal of the DoD standard is that meaningful data should not be able to be recovered once it has been overwritten.

The DoD established this standard in the 1990s to ensure data protection through random overwriting methods as companies disposed of old computers.

Department of Defense for securely erasing data from a hard drive.

A DoD wipe refers to permanently erasing data from hardware in accordance with the “DoD standard,” otherwise known as DoD 5220.22-M, which is the standard set by the U.S.
