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Secure destruction of digital media is a crucial step in ensuring the confidentiality of sensitive information and compliance with data protection regulations.
At Smartarchives, we offer digital media destruction services that ensure your data is irreversibly eliminated, reducing the risk of security breaches.
Why is it Essential to Destroy Digital Media?
Digital media such as hard disks, USB sticks, CD/DVDs and other storage devices often contain confidential and sensitive information. Failure to destroy these media correctly can lead to risks of :
Sensitive information can be recovered from undestroyed media, exposing your business to the risk of fraud, identity theft or cyber-attacks.
Failure to destroy digital media may result in penalties for non-compliance with data protection regulations, such as the RGPD.
A security incident involving the recovery of data from poorly destroyed media can seriously damage your company’s reputation.
Our Digital Media Destruction Process
Smartarchives follows a rigorous process to ensure that your digital media is securely destroyed to the highest standards.
Media identification and collection
We carry out a detailed inventory of the digital media to be destroyed, identifying each storage device containing sensitive or obsolete data.
Before destruction, the media are secured in sealed containers to prevent unauthorized access.
Certified Destruction Methods
We use industrial shredders capable of reducing hard disks and other media to tiny pieces, making data recovery impossible.
For magnetic media, we apply a powerful magnetic field that neutralizes all data before physical destruction.
For some media, destruction by incineration or a high-temperature oven is used, ensuring that all traces of data are permanently erased.
Destruction Control and Certification
Each stage of the destruction process is rigorously controlled to ensure that all data has been completely destroyed.
At the end of the process, we provide a certificate of destruction detailing the media destroyed, the method used, and the date of destruction, offering proof of compliance.
To ensure the security and confidentiality of your data, choose Smartarchives for the destruction of your digital media. Contact us today to discuss your specific requirements and find out how our services can help you meet security and compliance standards.