Defensible data destruction, documented down to the serial number.
If your auditor, your insurer, or your board ever asks how you proved a drive was destroyed — your Certificate of Destruction is the answer. We make sure it's a real one.
What we destroy
- Spinning hard drives (HDD) — purge via DoD-style multi-pass overwrite, or physical shred
- Solid-state drives (SSD, NVMe, M.2) — vendor-grade secure erase plus crypto-erase verification, or physical shred to NIST 800-88 destroy
- Mobile devices — phones, tablets, e-readers, IoT
- Backup media — LTO tape, USB drives, SD/CompactFlash, optical media
- Networking gear — switches, firewalls, controllers, and anything with persistent config storage
How we do it
Every job follows a documented process aligned with NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1 — the U.S. government's reference for media sanitization. We choose the right method per device class:
- Clear — appropriate for in-service drives being repurposed within your trust boundary
- Purge — for drives leaving your environment but retaining resale value
- Destroy — for end-of-life drives, classified data, or any case where physical evidence is required
The deliverables
You receive a Certificate of Destruction that lists every device by:
- Manufacturer and model
- Serial number
- Asset tag (if provided)
- Method of destruction (with NIST 800-88 classification)
- Date, location, and responsible technician
Reports are delivered as a signed PDF plus a CSV / JSON manifest you can import directly into your asset management system.
Optional: pre-destruction digital archive
Some clients need to retain data for legal hold, e-discovery, or business continuity reasons before destroying the source media. We can capture a forensically sound image of any drive before destruction and deliver it to your secure storage destination — encrypted, hashed, and chain-of-custody documented.
Why this matters
"We deleted the files" is not a defensible answer to a regulator or to a plaintiff's attorney. Modern HDDs and SSDs require specific destruction methods to make data recovery infeasible, and the only acceptable evidence is a written, serialized record from a third party with a documented process. That's what we provide.
If your destruction process can't survive cross-examination, it isn't really destruction.