The tracking of removable or portable media, which contains sensitive, confidential, personal and identifiable data, has become critical due to the amount of information contained in any such media. Loss and theft, through careless handling, ranks high as the primary means by which sensitive data is inadvertently disclosed to sources of ill will. In the case of portable media, any kind of information release can happen as any IT Asset containing storage hardware is taken off-line and retired without proper erasure. In some cases, attempted conventional means to overwrite data on drives not conducted by credible and certified means can lead to improper overwrite of all sectors on the drive.