100% Guaranteed Secure Data-Destruction
ProTek Recycling offers data destruction options to securely and quickly destroy your information.
At ProTek, we understand the importance of protecting sensitive information and ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations. That’s why we offer secure data destruction services to help companies properly destroy their data.
Our Data Destruction Process:
| Your work ends here! | Step 1: 1. Request our data destruction services. You’ll need to provide information about what type and quantity of equipment you have for data destruction. |
| Step 2: 2. ProTek will provide pricing and prepare a contract for NAID AAA data destruction services. | |
| Step 3: 3. Gather your equipment for data destruction and any extra equipment for recycling in one place. | |
| ProTek goes to work! | Step 4: 4. Our crews personally pick up your equipment for data destruction directly from your office, establishing custody, and bring it straight back to our facility and stored in a secure cage prior to destruction. |
| Step 5: 5. ProTek’s professional trained staff destroy all the data on all of the storage devices. | |
| Step 6: 6. ProTek sends you a certificate of destruction with a serialized list of data containing devices that were destroyed |
Please note, unlike some of our competitors, we do not use subcontractors or third-parties to pickup, transfer or handle equipment for data destruction. It is important to have custody transfer directly from our clients to us to protect their data, so when you contract ProTek for data destruction, you work exclusively with ProTek the entire time!
Proper planning is also very important for the successful execution of our data destruction services. When you request these service please have an accurate count of the equipment for data destruction as this allows us to best secure and handle your equipment throughout the data destruction process. Large quantities of hard drives or equipment for data destruction is certainly not an issue, but we do need to know about large volumes to plan accordingly.
Storage devices (hard drives, tape drives, etc.) can either be left in or taken out of the equipment before we pick them up.
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Some things to keep in mind:
- Hard drives that are not operational cannot be destroyed with software destruction methods.
- Equipment for physical destruction can be very expensive to purchase and install.
- Physical destruction leaves you with debris and material that are tough to recycle.
- Machinery to shred or physically destroy devices can have dangerous mechanisms; stay safe!
- Hard drives must be removed from electronics, which can take extra tools and your employees’ valuable time.
- Magnetic degaussing only works on magnetically stored data and will not work on solid state drives.
Before you waste valuable time and effort trying to do it yourself, call ProTek Recycling! ProTek Recycling offers physically shredding services to destroy your hard drives, tape drives, cell phones and other data containing devices. With our shredders on the road and in our facility, we have multiple solutions for your data destruction needs! Call us today!
Methods of Secure Data Destruction
At ProTek, we use two methods to ensure that data is properly destroyed and unrecoverable.
- Physical shredding: This method is highly effective, as it physically destroys the storage media and mixes all the fragments together.
- Digital overwriting: This method renders the data unrecoverable through either overwriting or erasure operations to clear or purge the media of all data. Digital overwriting also includes an independent erasure verification process to ensure the data is unrecoverable.
At ProTek Recycling, we employ both physical shredding and digital overwriting methods to destroy data. If a customer has a preference on the data destruction method used, please notify us during the service request (additional charges may apply).
Storage Devices That Should Have Their Data Destroyed
We can securely destroy data on a wide variety of devices and storage media. Some of the most common types include:
- Enclosed hard drives in desktops, laptops, servers or all-in-one computers
- Loose Hard Drives (mechanical, solid-state, NVMe, M.2 and storage on embedded motherboards)
- LTO, DLT, DAT, AIT, DDS and SLR tapes (loose or enclosed)
- Cell Phones
- Tablets
- CD/DVD/Blu-ray disks, USB sticks
- Reel-to-Reel tapes
- 3” and 5.25” floppy disks
ProTek has the following on-site and facility-based operation endorsements to perform the data destruction services:
- Physical hard drives
- Solid-state devices
- Non-paper media
- Product destruction
A certificate of destruction (COD) documents the equipment that was destroyed and includes the serial numbers of the storage devices, date of destruction, and the method used. A certificate of destruction can be used to demonstrate compliance with regulations and industry standards and provide assurance that the data destruction was completed.
Product Destruction
For some, their needs go past recycling electronics and data destruction and include the destruction of the entire product itself. ProTek Recycling is pleased to provide the NAID AAA certified product destruction services to destroy entire equipment. We offer product destruction services for two different levels: proprietary equipment and for general electronic equipment. If you have an interest in these services, it is best to call our offices and speak with an account executive so we can learn more about the products you need destroyed.
Regulatory Compliance
At ProTek, we understand the importance of compliance with industry regulations and standards when it comes to asset disposal and secure data destruction.
We help companies comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) when hardware and electronic media reach the end of their life and the protected health information (PHI) stored needs to be destroyed. HIPAA requires that healthcare organizations properly dispose of protected health information (PHI) and other sensitive data. We can help healthcare organizations comply with HIPAA by securely destroying PHI on devices and storage media, providing certificates of destruction, and following strict security protocols.
Our destruction methods follow the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Special Publication 800-88 Revision 1 Guidelines for Media Sanitization and our data destruction service is a certified NAID AAA certified service by iSigma. This certification is the highest level of security and due diligence for data destruction companies and requires strict adherence to guidelines for the physical destruction of data. We are proud to be NAID AAA certified and can provide our clients with the peace of mind that their data is being handled in accordance with the highest industry standards.
Costs of Professional Data Destruction
Cost is an important consideration when it comes to secure data destruction. However, it’s important to remember that the cost of not properly destroying data can be much higher in terms of data breaches and compliance violations.
While it may be tempting for a company to try to destroy its own data in-house, there are several advantages to using a professional service like ProTek Recycling’s. Professional data destruction companies have the necessary equipment and expertise to ensure that data is truly unrecoverable. In addition, using a professional service can provide added security and peace of mind, knowing that your data is being handled by experts in accordance with industry standards and regulations.
Some things to keep in mind before you try to do your own data destruction:
- Equipment for physical destruction can be very expensive to purchase and install.
- Physical destruction leaves you with debris and material that are tough to recycle.
- Machinery to shred or physically destroy devices can have dangerous mechanisms; stay safe!
- Hard drives must be removed from electronics, which can take extra tools and your employees’ valuable time.
- Magnetic degaussing only works on magnetically stored data and will not work on solid state drives.
- What documentation do you have to attest that the data destruction occurred?
Our team of professionals are trained to handle all types of storage media and will ensure that your data is properly and securely destroyed.
Ultimately, the cost of our secure data destruction services vary depending on the volume and type of devices or storage media to be destroyed. When you contact us, just let us know how much and what equipment you have for data destruction so we can provide you with a quote.
Get Started with ProTek Data Destruction
Secure data destruction is crucial for protecting sensitive information and ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations. We are confident our data destruction services can securely destroy data from any of your equipment and our product destruction services will destroy whole equipment to your satisfaction.
At ProTek, we pride ourselves on our equipment and expertise, and we are committed to providing our clients with the peace of mind that comes with knowing that their data is being handled by experts in accordance with industry standards and regulations. Contact us today to discuss your data destruction or product destruction needs and to receive a quote.
Using ProTek’s Electronics Recycling Service without Data Destruction Services:
Regardless of whether you use data destruction service or not, we will never view, copy, or otherwise access any data on equipment that we receive. When customers use our electronic recycling service without our data destruction service, the equipment’s data is ultimately still sanitized and the data is unrecoverable to NIST standards. However, we are only able to provide documentation certifying data destruction for customers who use our data destruction service.