For volume erasure of high-density metal tapes and cassettes
the SV5000 performance will satisfy the requirements. Automatically controlled
by an electric eye the reels, disks or cassettes are placed on the wide conveyor
belt where they are transported through the 4000 Gauss field.
Up to five thousand diskettes or five hundred VHS cassettes can
be erased per hour. The SV5000 has been specifically designed to meet exacting
performance criteria demanded and expected by security operations requiring
safe, effective and secure management of their magnetic media.
Government Approved
The Verity
SV5000 degausser is UK government approved to the CESG Degaussing Standard. This
new Standard, which replaces the SEAP 8500 Degaussing Standard has two levels of
degaussing:
● Lower Level - for RESTRICTED and
below
● Higher Level - for CONFIDENTIAL and above
Currently the SV5000 is approved at the Lower Level. This means
any magnetic media (holding RESTRICTED or less) may be regarded as NOT
PROTECTIVELY MARKED after being degaussed.
The SV5000 degausser is subject to S(E)N 06/09. which requires
all the SEAP-approved degaussers to be retested against the new CESG Degaussing
Standard (at the Higher Level). At this time, the testing standard is not yet
available.
The SV5000 may still be used to degauss magnetic media at
CONFIDENTIAL and above, but the degaussed media is subject to additional
handling requirements (detailed in S(E)N 06/09).
