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Shredding disks

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The most valuable resource in the 21st century. are our data.

Is it enough to press “delete” to get rid of information from the hard drive forever?

Unfortunately, it’s not that simple, and your data can easily fall into the wrong hands.

The only truly safe disk destruction is:

  • Drive shredding at the customer’s premises
  • Monitored transportation
  • Professional disposal

An old laptop? Unnecessary external drive?

Most people deal with them this way:

  • He throws them in the trash or electro-waste.
  • He presses “delete” and forgets about the problem of sensitive data.
  • They format the drive, not realizing that such data can also be restored!
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Curiosity:

When a group of Canadian students from Vancouver visited an e-waste dump in Ghana and examined the hard drives there, they discovered sensitive data on American universities, institutions and even services.

The experiment was part of a PBS Frontline/World documentary program, but it showed only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to disk destruction – or rather, the lack thereof.

If a similar experiment were conducted in any Polish home or institution, the results might horrify!

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Sensitive data, photos and documents are often completely unprotected and off-the-shelf.

On memory cards, cameras, phones, flash drives, old hard drives, SSDs and HDDs.

It’s not just a privacy problem for the owner of such a card or drive.

Failure to properly secure data also conflicts with the RODO and company data protection procedures. Often the protection of confidential information is additionally stipulated in contracts or agreements – breaking these stipulations can cost millions!

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Did you know that.

Even the physical destruction of a drive is not necessarily enough to erase data. In 2021. The forensic science department of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn conducted an experiment in which students managed to recover data from disks that were first set on fire and then soaked in a firefighting operation(source)

Watch a video of the disk shredding process conducted by 3R.

Remember! Deleting files on your own and inadvertently does not protect them from potential recovery and use by third parties.

Disk shredding - what specifically do we do?

At your company’s premises, we remove data using demagnetization with a Degausser ProDevice ASM 120 Professional – a magnetic field of 11,000. Gauss

How does it work? With a strong magnetic pulse, all electronic files and records are permanently deleted. Importantly, it is effective even on damaged equipment.

The hard drives are then transported in special, approved and sealed containers to our headquarters

How does it work? Your representative can accompany us on this journey. Travel and destruction of media can be recorded. We are able to expressly pick up carriers even from multiple locations at the same time – feel free to contact us to discuss the details.

Physically destroy media with HSM Powerline HDS 230 shredder

How does it work? How does it work? When placed in the shredder, the media is shredded into 26mm by 11.5mm particles.

We then dispose of the electronics in accordance with regulations on electro-waste.

How does it work? We have a contract with a company that remelts the remaining metal offcuts at a recycling processing plant.

Confirmation of the proper performance of our work is a report and certificate attesting to the service.

No trace is left of your hard drives – literally.

Data destruction - why us?

Certificate No: 2037/09/2016/BI/C-(Z/1/2018): ISO 27001:2017

Compliance with the standards for the implementation, maintenance and continuous improvement of the information security management system for the organization, as well as the handling of information security risks tailored to the needs of the organization.

Certificate No: 2037/09/2016/J/C-(Z/1/2018): ISO 9001:2015

Quality Management Systems

We use a standards-compliant demagnetizer: PCI DSS

(Payment Card Industry) Data Security Standard, NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Guidelines for Media Sanitization, NIST SP 800-36, NIST SP 800-88, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), PIPEDA (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act), HMG CESG IS5, OJ L. U. of 2004. No. 100, item. 10

We use a shredder that meets DIN 66399 standards: O-2 / T-3 / E-2 / H-5.

Approved metal containers

In the process, we use approved metal containers, made in accordance with the RM Decree of June 1, 2010. on the organization and operation of secret registries (Journal of Laws 114 item 765 of 26.06.2010), by Order No. 12 / MON of the Minister of Defense of March 12, 2010. (Journal of Laws of the Ministry of Defense No. 5, item 49 of 09.04.2010).

In addition, we use specialized seals certified by the Institute of Precision Mechanics with Accreditation Certificate No. AB 035, ZT/437/2013.

Data destruction - questions and answers

It depends on the availability of appointments, but we do our best to provide you with express hard drive shredding services as well.

The demagnetization cycle alone with the Degausser ProDevice ASM 120 Professional takes just 30 seconds; the HSM Powerline HDS 230 shredder, on the other hand, can accept and destroy up to 2,500 different devices per hour. So in total, the process itself should not take more than a few hours. To check free dates and order hard drive shredding, feel free to contact us.

HSM Powerline HDS 230 shredder is also used for shredding CDs and DVDs, floppy disks or credit cards – if you need such a service additionally, please let us know.

We combine world-class procedures and equipment with IT expertise. Our activities are certified by a report issued by us describing the amount and type of equipment disposed of, as well as a certificate of service performance. The entire process can be recorded. After melting down the leftover equipment at the recycling plant, you can also get a waste record card from us useful for keeping records at BDO.

The disks often contain confidential data, and their proper destruction is a matter of contract compliance or RODO data protection, so we enable our clients to be present during the transportation, as well as the destruction of the disks. Upon request, the procedure can also be recorded. This option is also sometimes used by insurance company representatives.

How much it costs to shred hard drives and other media depends mainly on the amount of media, and sometimes the distance from the collection site. The price of destroying a single carrier starts from a few zlotys, but we usually deal with the disposal of dozens of such devices at a time. In addition, we can charge a transportation fee – feel free to contact us to discuss the details.

Each case is actually different, but there has not yet been an order that we have not handled. We carry out both single orders and permanent service for companies in the area of hard drive destruction and data erasure. We also offer combined services – buying IT equipment, picking up unwanted drives and disposal.

Yes, since our team is also IT specialists, we will easily dismantle old disks, secure them and dispose of them. After dismantling, we record the inventory numbers and the manufacturer’s number, which allows us to keep the documents in order and be sure which equipment has been disposed of.

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