How to Choose the Best Data Destruction Company
Choosing a data destruction company is a defensible-decision exercise that reaches across every media type the enterprise retires: hard drives, solid state drives, backup tape, optical media, paper records, and decommissioned equipment. Procurement and the CISO must produce, on audit demand, evidence that the vendor’s methods, certifications, witness modes, and Certificate of Destruction artifacts align […]
5 Important Reasons to Do Data Center Decommissioning
Data center decommissioning is the planned, documented retirement of compute, storage, networking, and supporting infrastructure from a facility that is being closed, consolidated, migrated, or refreshed. Done well, decommissioning produces audit-evidence artifacts that close the regulatory loop on every retired asset and recover residual capital from the asset stream. Done poorly, decommissioning leaves residual data […]
Guide to Choosing the Right Hard Drive Destruction Company
Selecting a hard drive destruction vendor is a defensible-decision exercise: Procurement and the CISO must produce, on audit demand, evidence that the vendor’s methods, certifications, and chain of custody align with NIST SP 800-88 r1, NAID AAA Certification Standards, and the regulatory regime governing the data category. This guide names the 9 evaluation criteria CISOs […]