Sysmex Asia Pacific Achieves Data Protection
Compliance in 3 Months with Easy-to-Deploy
Erasure Solutions
Highlights• Complied with multiple regional
data protection regulations
regarding data sanitization

A subsidiary of Sysmex Corporation in Japan, Sysmex
Asia Pacific Pte Ltd (Sysmex Asia Pacific) is a marketleading supplier of clinical diagnostic and health IT
products and services across 10 different countries.
With a pivotal role in the APAC healthcare industry, thecompany is required to comply with different regional
data protection regulations when disposing of IT assets
or otherwise sanitizing digital media before reuse.

• Shortened labor processes
for disposal by 80%

Challenge

With Blancco data erasure solutions,Sysmex Asia Pacific has:
• Ensured sensitive data ispermanently removed fromenterprise workstations
and servers before assets
leave company premises

To comply with secure disposal and reuse requirements across the regions
it serves, Sysmex Asia Pacific needed a secure way to make sure end-of-life
data storage devices were completely erased before they left the premises
for redeployment or disposal. This included removing sensitive data frominternal user workstations and servers from multiple locations.
The company also sought advice on complying with various regional
mandates, such as the Personal Data Protection Acts in Singapore andMalaysia, the Data Privacy Act in the Philippines and other regulations in theregion, as well as assistance with implementing internal best practices at
each location.
Not only did the company need to implement a solution across a wide
geographic area, it also needed to consider its diverse workforce: Manyadministrative staff were not IT specialists, but would need to ensure data
sanitization within their areas of responsibility. For a solution to work, the teamwould need to invest time and resources into extra training or find a solutionthat prioritized ease of use.

Solution
The company chose several Blancco enterprise solutions because of erasure
speed, the ability to erase a wide range of technologies and auditability.
Sysmex Asia Pacific selected:•Blancco Drive Eraser to sanitize storage HDDs andSSDs within laptops, desktops and servers•

Blancco Removable Media Eraser for USB flash
drives and other removable media•

Blancco Management Console – Cloud for license
management and erasure reports•SAS Cube, a portable, standalone data erasure appliance
kit to process loose SAS/SATA/SSD drives

Licenses were deployed via the Blancco Management Console and HASP
keys, two of several available deployment methods. These tools enabled
Sysmex Asia Pacific to perform secure, on-site data erasure while confidently
adhering to data privacy regulations and best practices.
Blancco’s compliance with ISO 27001 standards, its ability to erase advanced
SSDs and its erasure verification and certification also meant Sysmex Asia
Pacific could rest assured that all sensitive data had been overwritten—andhave the audit trail to prove it. Furthermore, Blancco’s centralized report
repository allowed the company to confirm compliance with various dataprotection mandates—both by country and across the region.
Ease of use was another a deciding factor in the company’s choice. Despitesome employees lacking formal IT training, the organization was quickly able
to adopt and use Blancco’s solutions. In fact, the company experienced an 80
percent reduction in time spent on data sanitization compared to degaussing
and free overwriting software that the company had used before.
Throughout the entire process, Sysmex Asia Pacific also received extensive
support and training. From pre-sale and procurement assistance to startup
and administrative training, Blancco ensured that the company had thesupport it needed to successfully integrate solutions into its existing
operations.

Blancco provided easy-to-deploy and easy-to-use tools
for achieving compliance and fulfilling our secure data
erasure needs.”– Simon Lam
Sysmex Senior Manager of Regional IT© Blancco Technology Group. 2020. All rights reserved. rev 2020.10

Results
The IT team at Sysmex Asia Pacific knew that Blancco data erasure solutions
would help it fulfill its data sanitization responsibilities under various APAC
data protection laws. The company was also pleasantly surprised with howquickly it was able to deploy Blancco data erasure solutions across all itslocations.
In addition, Sysmex Asia Pacific achieved regional compliance across all 10 of
the Asia-Pacific countries in which it operates within three months.
“Blancco provided easy-to-deploy and easy-to-use tools for achieving
compliance and fulfilling our secure data erasure needs,” said Sysmex Senior
Manager of Regional IT Simon Lam. “Based on our experience with Blancco,”
he continued, “we aim to consider further product [additions] to enhance ourcompliance capabilities both internally and commercially.”

About Sysmex Asia PacificSysmex Asia Pacific Pte Ltd is a subsidiary of Sysmex Corporation of Japan.
Sysmex is a market leader in the delivery and implementation of clinical
IVD and health IT products and services for clinical laboratories, hospitals
and healthcare organizations. Its products and solutions continuously help
improve patient clinical services and efficiency advances resulting in costsavings, which in turn translate to the delivery of better patient care.
Globally, Sysmex delivers total solutions in the field of clinical laboratory
testing, including hematology, hemostasis, urinalysis, clinical chemistry,
immunoassay system, flow cytometry and life science. Supplying products
and services to customers in more than 190 countries, Sysmex is one of themarket leaders in hematology and coagulation instrumentation worldwide.

About Blancco
Blancco is the industry standard in data erasure and mobile devicediagnostics software. Our data erasure software provides thousands oforganizations the tools they need to enable sustainable data sanitization
processes across the widest array of IT assets. By focusing on erasing andreusing assets instead of physically destroying them, organizations canimprove their security posture and address corporate social responsibility
requirements, while also ensuring compliance with local and global data
privacy requirements.
Blancco data erasure solutions have been tested, certified, approved andrecommended by 15+ governing bodies and leading organizations aroundthe world. No other data erasure software can boast this level of compliancewith the rigorous requirements set by government agencies, legal authorities
and independent testing laboratories. All Blancco erasures are verified andcertified, resulting in a tamper-proof audit trail.
For more information on what Blancco can do for your enterprise,contact us today.

© Blancco Technology Group. 2020. All rights reserved. rev 2020.10