Data Destruction Services
Introduction
When your electronic devices have outlived their usefulness, the next natural step to take would be to buy their replacements. And because you care about the environment and wish to dispose of your e-waste responsibly, you may choose to donate or refurbish your devices for resale. These devices may range from laptops and mobile devices, computers, servers, storage devices, and other equipment. In that entire process, consideration must be given to the security of your data as part of your disposal plans. Therefore, you must find credible data destruction services or free data destruction software to ensure that before you donate or resell your old laptop or computing devices, you securely destroy your private information. Your best bet would be to involve a professional data destruction services provider.
Below we’ll outline the importance of data destruction services and how vendors like TechReset can ease your concerns and secure your data.
Data Destruction Services
What are data destruction services? These are services that serve an essential role in the end-of-life cycle of electronic devices. Rapid technological advancements have led to the rapid obsolescence of electronic devices. When electronic equipment is no longer needed, it is vital to correctly and completely destroy all data. This calls for professional data destruction services.
Why professional data destruction services? An experienced vendor will help you with an effective and efficient data destruction plan that ensures end-to-end security, minimizes business risk, and, as much as possible, maximizes return on investments. The only way to achieve this is by working with a certified, auditable, and responsible data destruction services provider.
Using a professional vendor adds to your peace of mind concerning your sensitive data. You can choose to delete the data in-house using free data destruction software, and some of the best free data destruction software is available online. Still, you can’t ensure that all your sensitive data is unrecoverable, unlike a professional data destruction services provider. So why take the risk of exposing your data to an unknown individual with the requisite skills and software? Professional data destruction companies use secure data erasure and destruction methods that adhere to the highest protocols and standards available. Securely destroying your data is their top priority.
A professional data destruction services provider should also be flexible enough to cater to all their customers’ specific and varied needs without compromising their data security. So whether you are a large corporation that requires weekly data destruction services, or a household looking to dispose of their old electronic equipment, a professional vendor should have services that can help you at your level.
A professional data destruction services vendor will also be the trusted partner in your data destruction efforts. Your vendor should be able to complete the work in an appropriate time frame that is acceptable to you and reflects the workload. Competence and an understanding of the security regulations throughout the data destruction process are critical, from the transport of electronic waste, off-site shredding or destruction, and types of data destruction methods. A professional vendor should clearly outline this entire process to you and provide various and verifiable assurances of your data’s security and thorough erasure.
A professional data destruction services provider must have a proven reputation and be certified before you can consider them as a partner of choice in data destruction. Some questions to ask include:
- Who are their clients?
- What do these clients have to say about their services?
- What is their level of security?
- What industry certifications do they hold?
- Do they provide a certificate of destruction?
Doing a bit of research and asking the right questions will help you choose the best data destruction services, vendor. As a rule of thumb, always work with vendors who offer an additional level of security. Even if you don’t think you need it—the more certified, auditable, and professional the service provider, the better.
At TechReset, we understand the security concerns that accompany data erasure. We are IT asset disposal (ITAD) industry leaders because we not only adhere (and are certified) to the strictest and best standards in e-waste disposal, but we are also committed to the safety of your data.
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Why Destroy your Data with TechReset?
TechReset has been in the ITAD industry for over 20 years. In that time, we have perfected our processes and systems that cater to every part of ecologically responsible e-waste disposal; on-site removal, product assessment and audit, secure data erasure, and redeployment.
When it comes to data erasure, we have various methods that securely destroy data. We are one of a few data destruction companies in Canada that are certified silver partners with Blancco, the world’s gold standard in secure data erasure. Blancco has been certified and approved by 18 governing bodies worldwide as it has, and continues to, meet the most rigorous requirements set in the industry. As a result, it is trusted by government agencies, legal authorities, and independent testing laboratories. Together with Blancco, we offer forensic-level data destruction services for all our clients-complex multinationals, or smaller Canadian businesses.
We securely remove and transport your old electronic equipment from your site, assess it at our secure locations, and before any further processing, erase all sensitive information. Depending on your needs, this could mean secure wiping of hard drives and any other data storage equipment, reuse or refurbish for resale. If you do not wish to keep the equipment, we can destroy all data storage equipment. We are experts at erasing data from computers, laptops, servers, tablets, and other data storage devices.
We offer off-site data erasure and shredding services. We understand that you may feel more at ease if we securely destroy your data on-site, but that may cause disruption. TechReset has a trained and insured team of technicians who handle the safe and non-intrusive on-site removal, as well as the secure transfer of your electronic equipment to one of our highly secure facilities. In addition, TechReset can facilitate the shredding and destruction of your data storage equipment. At the end of the process, you will receive a Certificate of Data Cleanse from our partner, Blancco. Whatever your size, needs, or the number of equipment, TechReset will deliver the highest quality data destruction services.
Certifications for Secure Destruction Of Your Data
We developed our data security management policies with one goal in mind; to ensure the safe destruction or cleansing of IT hardware that contains sensitive personal or corporate information. We offer the following data destruction software with certificate to certify secure data destruction and offer you peace of mind.
- Audit Report – This report lists all IT assets we collect and their status.
- Certificate of Data Cleanse – issued by our partner Blancco, this certificate is your ultimate assurance of secure data destruction.
As an ITAD industry leader, we are also certified by international standards. Some of the industry certifications we hold include:
- R2:2013 Certification – for responsible recycling practices
- Blancco Certified Silver Partner – Blancco is the gold standard in data destruction
- ISO 14001:2015 Certification for Environmental Management Systems
- ISO 9001:2015 Certification for Quality Management Systems
- ISO 45001 Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S) Certification
We are passionate about responsible IT asset disposal and secure data destruction. We are ready to bring the experience, the expertise, and the passion we are well-regarded for to help you secure your sensitive information.
Enhanced Data Destruction Services
Secure data destruction is an integral part of many companies’ information security strategies. We use the best data destruction software to ensure we purge your sensitive data entirely. At TechReset, we partner with you as you dispose of or recycle your e-waste in an environmentally friendly manner. We make it possible to do the greatest good for our environment while ensuring the safety of confidential information. In addition, we are committed to our zero-landfill initiative. We will provide a Certificate of Remarketing and Landfill Diversion that will verify secure data destruction of all sensitive data and that none of your equipment finds its way to a landfill. We also follow the Basel Global Convention protocols, an international treaty whose sole mandate is to reduce the movement of hazardous waste between nations and prevent the transfer of hazardous waste from developed to developing countries.
Everything we do at TechReset has the environment and our clients in mind, and that is why we adhere to such strict protocols and standards. We take extensive measures to ensure the safety of your confidential information and use the best industry practices to evaluate, sort, and ethically salvage inventory to give you the peace of mind that you have helped save the planet.
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