Data Destruction

Data Destruction Services with a Global Reach

CentricsIT offers data destruction services on a global scale, providing the services businesses need to keep their data secure. Data destruction is the physical process of making a hard drive unusable for conventional equipment. Arguably, this method can be accomplished with a hammer and some sweat equity, but this is an extremely inefficient method (especially if you have hundreds of units to decommission). Instead, most companies rely on punching and shredding machines to do the job.

Our engineers provide a variety of data destruction services, allowing clients to choose between onsite and offsite data destruction for an extra level of assurance. Our data destruction methods are industry standard, making drives unreadable and protecting your business from data breaches from EOL equipment

Methods of Data Destruction

Punching

Punching requires hand-drills or drill presses to punch holes into the drives to make them unreadable (although, plausibly, if not done correctly, data could still be gleaned from the drive). While this method is more effective with spinning disks, it is not as effective with solid state drives (SSDs).

Shredding

Shredding machines are similar to paper shredders, but they are built to accommodate more resilient materials. The machine’s powerful, rotating teeth completely destroy the drive, leaving no possibility for drive or data reassembly. This method is ideal for all types of hard drives but remains especially important for SSDs to ensure the destruction of each onboard memory chip.

Because shredding is more comprehensive, CentricsIT encourages our clients to have their drives shredded rather than have them wiped (though we do offer punching services as well).

Data Destruction Services

For highly regulated industries like healthcare and finance, physical destruction adds an extra layer of insurance that the data is destroyed and irretrievable. Because CentricsIT understands the importance of your data and its security, we offer onsite and offsite data destruction, giving you options to choose what is best for your business.

Onsite Data Destruction

Having an ITAD provider that can provide onsite data destruction can provide an extra layer of assurance, cutting out transit entirely. A data shredder truck is designed to be a full-service solution that brings the tools and resources necessary to sanitize all your data-bearing devices right from your company’s own secure facilities. This equipment is capable of shredding virtually any type of drive, including HDDs, SSDs and tapes.

Offsite Data Destruction

For offsite destruction, CentricsIT employs a secure chain of custody to ensure equipment arrives quickly and securely. Data-bearing components are then shredded in our on-campus warehouse.

Certificates

For all devices that have undergone data destruction, CentricsIT provides certificates of data destruction along with detailed reporting, when services are completed.

Security certificates and reports are important documents to have for compliance and auditing purposes. CentricsIT will make every effort to accommodate your logging and reporting requirements to help you remain compliant by any standards, whether internal to your organization or mandated by a governing authority.

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