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
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. 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.
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.
| 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 |
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. 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.
RASA is pre-general-availability. We're choosing our first design partners now — the earliest ones get the most say in what gets built.
We're taking on our first design partners ahead of general availability. Two ways to start.
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.
Ryan Frank, CEO — [email protected] · Kaitlyn Frank, CCO — [email protected]