Electronic Waste and Media Destruction

Document destruction is a great step towards information security, but what about the status of your electronic information? Are you currently doing anything to protect the vital data on your hard drives and other electronic media?

Unfortunately, we live in an age where cyber terrorists and online hackers exist and they can be extremely threatening to both companies and individuals in Georgia and throughout the rest of the country. As technology constantly develops and computer advancements are taking place daily, it’s becoming even more critical to look after electronic media at the time of disposal. If data is no longer relevant or has reached the end of its lifecycle, it’s essential that it is dealt with securely and in a manner that is compliant with privacy legislation. One of the biggest failures you can make as a professional is throwing away electronic waste without properly destroying it first.  Your hard drives contain thousands of files containing valuable information that may pertain to clients, employees, budgets, marketing plans, contracts, pricing, and more. Taking preventative measures in protecting your sensitive data will help to keep your business protected from a data breach, fraud, and identity theft.

Why is Media Destruction Important?

While it’s still believed by some that simply erasing or degaussing a hard drive is enough to permanently delete data. However, the opposite is true. Information found on hard drives, tapes, and other electronic media isn’t as secure as you might think. Confidential business information can be recovered quite easily from discarded computers or laptops using relatively standard software. Don’t leave your company vulnerable to privacy breach and identity theft, when you can avoid it entirely through smart data destruction.

Augusta Data Storage supplies more than just document destruction; take advantage of dependable and efficient media destruction services, including electronic destruction and disposal services.  You can gain peace of mind in knowing that your private data surrounding business plans, customer and employee information, budgets, and financial details will remain 100% protected.

The Benefits of Media Destruction and Hard Drive Shredding:

• Improves privacy protection
• Removes the opportunity of tampered or stolen information
• Maintains legal and regulatory compliance
• Frees up valuable storage space

Identity theft cases continue to occur and the only way to refrain from falling victim to such a crime is through ensuring sensitive data doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.

Partner with Augusta Data Storage for the Destruction of Your E-Waste

Augusta Data Storage’s e-waste and hard drive destruction services protect your critical data before it’s tossed away. Our qualified team of professionals will destroy your end-of-life hard drives and other media directly at our facility. You may drop your e-waste off or a representative will come to your location and collect everything, where it will be transported back to our facility for immediate destruction.  Following the destruction process, you are given a detailed Certificate of Destruction which indicates the time and place the destruction process occurred.

Our Media Destruction Services Include:

• Off-sitedestruction at our facility
• 24-hour turnaroundon all emergency needs
• Certificate of Destructionprovided upon completing
• Video captureof the destruction process
• Shredded material is recycled to make new products

We Securely Destroy All E-Waste:

• Hard drives
• Data backup tapes
• E-scrap
• Optical media
• Mobile devices
• CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray, and HD DVDs
• Laptop and Computers

Recycling E-Waste and Complying With Legislation

At Augusta Data Storage, we realize that your organization is likely just as committed to environmental stewardship as our team is; with this in mind we promise our clients that all shredded hard drive parts are collected and sent to metal and electronics recyclers for further processing. We send all electronic waste to our trusted recycling partners whose processes are in direct compliance with federal and state electronic waste regulations, and of course only following the secure destruction of your hard drives and other electronic media.

Hiring Augusta Data Storage to look after your electronic destruction needs will guarantee that you receive services that reflect the highest industry standards. Stay in compliance with:

• HIPAA
• HITECH
• FACTA
• GLB

Turning to Augusta Data Storage for your media destruction needs will help your company remain in good standing with a trustworthy reputation by the public.  Get in touch with our professionals for additional details surrounding our electronic destruction services. Call 1-888-299-0186!