Patent-Pending Erasure Verification
RASA wraps your existing erasure tool with a patent-pending verification engine — producing a cryptographically signed, audit-defensible certificate mapped to NIST SP 800-88 Rev 2.
Data doesn't disappear when you wipe a drive. It disappears when you can prove you wiped it — in a way that holds up to a federal auditor, a third-party assessor, and a courtroom. That proof has never existed as a purchasable product. It does now.
The Problem
Modern erasure tools wipe drives. They can't prove they worked — not in a way that satisfies a third-party assessor, a federal auditor, or a litigation hold review.
A pass/fail certificate tells you what happened. It doesn't document how verification was conducted, whether the sample was representative, or who could have altered the result. Auditors are no longer accepting that.
Regulatory exposure isn't theoretical. It's already paying out.
Why Now
NIST SP 800-88 Rev 2, finalized September 2025, tells organizations to verify sanitization but leaves the method to you. Auditors, clients, and regulators increasingly expect documented proof, not a bare pass/fail. RASA is built to be that proof.
Solutions
RASA adds the one thing every current erasure tool is missing: a statistically sound, cryptographically signed certificate your compliance team can stand behind.
Who It's For
RASA serves SMBs, mid-market companies, large enterprises, federal agencies, and ITAD platforms — anywhere verifiable data destruction is a compliance requirement.
Assessors want a documented methodology, not a pass/fail. RASA produces the NIST SP 800-88 Rev 2 erasure proof, with a stated confidence interval and a pre-commitment record an assessor can interrogate.
NIST SP 800-88 Rev 2 requires an organizationally approved verification methodology. RASA is built to be that methodology — with pre-commitment protocol, confidence-interval output, and cryptographic tamper-evidence for federal audit scrutiny.
Non-compliance fines reach $1.9M per year per violation category. Improper media disposal is a recurring root cause of breach investigations. RASA gives you defensible NIST SP 800-88 erasure proof for the media-disposal step HIPAA requires.
PCI-DSS failures trigger $5K–$100K/month in card brand penalties. RASA documents the verification methodology your QSA needs to sign off on decommissioning events.
Offer enterprise clients an audit-defensible certificate as part of your decommissioning service. RASA is designed for platform integration and reseller bundling — enhanced offering, no workflow replacement required.
How It Works
RASA wraps any standard erasure tool with a four-step stateful verification engine.
A cryptographic seed is locked before verification begins. Sample locations are determined before anyone sees the data — this is what makes the output tamper-evident and auditable.
Bounded-variance sliding-window rejection sampling selects which sectors to read back. Coverage is mathematically guaranteed — no clustering, no gaps, no cherry-picking.
Read-back data is analyzed for uniformity. A statistical confidence interval is computed — e.g., "≥99.9% of sampled coverage verified clean at 95% confidence" — with a documented mathematical basis auditors can interrogate.
A cryptographically signed certificate is issued, mapped to NIST SP 800-88 Rev 2. Cannot be altered after issuance — tamper-evident for audit trail purposes.
The Certificate
| Certificate Element | What It Proves |
|---|---|
| Pre-commit seed hash | Sample locations were locked before verification — no post-hoc manipulation possible |
| Confidence interval | A mathematical bound on coverage — not a guess, not an assumption |
| Standard mapping | Directly cites the regulation your assessor will check — no translation required |
| Cryptographic signature | Tamper-evident — certificate cannot be altered after issuance |
What Makes RASA Different
Conventional erasure tools verify the wipe and issue a completion certificate. RASA adds the parts that make a result audit-defensible: a pre-commitment proof that sample locations were fixed before verification, and a statistical confidence interval with a documented mathematical basis. It works alongside the tools you already run, like Blancco or WhiteCanyon, not instead of them.
RASA doesn't compete with your erasure tool. It makes the result audit-defensible.
Mathematically guaranteed representative coverage — not just statistical likelihood
Pre-commitment proof — sample locations fixed before verification, provably
Confidence interval with a documented mathematical basis — a number auditors can interrogate
Cryptographically signed, tamper-evident output — certificate integrity verifiable after the fact
Direct regulatory mapping — to NIST SP 800-88 Rev 2, the federal media-sanitization standard
About RASA Data Labs
The regulatory framework for data erasure assumes organizations have a statistically defensible verification methodology. Almost none do — because no tool has ever provided one.
NIST SP 800-88 Rev 2 defers verification methodology to "IEEE 2883, NSA specifications, or an organizationally approved standard," but ships no tool to meet that bar. The standard is clear. The tooling hasn't caught up.
We built RASA to change that: a patent-pending verification engine that turns any erasure event into a cryptographically signed, audit-defensible certificate — with a real statistical confidence interval and a real pre-commitment proof.
The Team
Ryan brings 15 years inside the data forensics industry — the exact industry RASA sells into. As Development Team Lead at KLDiscovery, one of the world's largest data forensics and e-discovery firms, he spent over a decade understanding what auditors actually need when a drive is decommissioned.
He built RASA's core verification engine, formal complexity proofs, and complete patent evidence package. Most recently led an 18-month engineering roadmap at National Business Institute, serving 650,000+ users.
Expertise: Azure · .NET microservices · SOC/PCI compliance · AI governance
B.A., Computer Science — Saint John's University · MNTech ACE Leadership Program 2024Kaitlyn has a track record of closing large, complex enterprise deals in regulated markets, including federal government technology. As Senior Product Marketing Manager for Legal Tech & AI at Thomson Reuters, she contributed to TR's multi-year federal CoCounsel contract with the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
As VP of Marketing at Crossfuze, she built $10M+ in marketing-sourced pipeline. She specializes in federal and state government technology marketing — the exact buyer RASA is built for.
Expertise: Federal government technology · Enterprise sales · Regulatory market strategy
MBA — Carlson School of Management, University of MinnesotaThree ways to get started — pick what makes sense for where you are.
Request a demo against your hardware. See the certificate output before you commit to anything.
Evaluate RASA with your compliance team. No commitment, no per-event billing during the pilot.
We'll walk through the certificate output and show you exactly how it maps to your specific regulatory requirements.
Ryan Frank, CEO — [email protected] · Kaitlyn Frank, CCO — [email protected]