There are many security and privacy concerns when it comes to erasing our professional or personal data. We have heard more than a hundred horror stories about the unproperly wiping of data and those expensive legal penalties. At this point, you may be considering destroying your IT assets, but this would not be enough because it could be retrievable. Professional data wiping will guarantee the permanent erasing of your data.

There are many ITAD companies across our country, but only some of those offer and guarantee certified data erasure. Companies like GreenTek Solutions provide clients an erasure report that conforms to the NIST 800-88 Rev1 guidelines. Each of these reports contains the erasure method and status of each hard drive picked up by our team. This certificate will guarantee that the equipment you throw out today will not become a security threat tomorrow.

The NIST 800-88 Rev1 is a media sanitization guideline that companies follow to perform permanent data erasure without leaving any traces. This NIST standard is considered the most secure data erasure method to permanently delete all data stored on mobiles, HDDs, SSDs, etc.

Managing IT assets could be difficult because of the environment and data but, ITAD companies make the process easier by providing certified solutions such as secure data wiping, restoration of your equipment, recycling, etc. No matter if your equipment is obsolete or non-functional, its components could be used in the manufacturing of new equipment.