NEW YORK STATE SECURE ONSITE HARD DRIVE DESTRUCTION

IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT YOUR INTERNAL DATA SECURITY NEEDS

The NYS Electronic Waste Recycling and Reuse Act specifically states that NYS authorized electronic recycling facilities have “no” data liability.

Recognizing your significant data privacy regulatory responsibility you must make sure that your IT asset disposal vendor is a qualified secure data destruction service provider.

DATA PRIVACY COMPLIANT HARD DRIVE DESTRUCTION

Federal (HIPAA, GLBA), Industry (PCI) and State (ID Theft) data privacy regulations have highly specific requirements for the destruction of obsolete personally sensitive data. They require that the data be destroyed according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-88 “Guidelines for Media Sanitization”. They further state that third-party data destruction services must meet required vendor due diligence standards.

Back Thru The Future® provides NIST approved onsite hard drive shredding and degaussing services. BTTF is among a select few licensed electronic recycling businesses that is also NAID AAA certified as a secure data destruction operation for both plant-based and mobile hard drive shredding. NAID certification, as a recognized industry security standard, serves to satisfy vendor due diligence requirements.

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NYS Shredding License

Secure Tape Shredding

Medical Device Destruction

Safe Harbor Express®: Scheduled Destruction Services

Secure Data Destruction for the Healthcare Industry

Secure Data Destruction for the Financial Industry

NYS Cyber Security Regulations Effective 3/1/17

 

New NYS DFS Regulation 23 NYCRR 500 Effective 3/1/17 Requires All NYS Based Financial Services Businesses to Reassess Your Data Destruction Procedure.
Learn more about these requirements.

 

Onsite shredding is the most effective method for sanitizing SSD and solid state cards. This is the NIST approved method of data destruction for solid state data storage devices. Any other method of sanitization represents a highly technical and time consuming effort with questionable effectiveness. Most mobile communication and computing devices use solid state data storage. Server hard drives are rapidly incorporating solid state data storage components. The sanitization of solid state storage devices is becoming a significant data security challenge. Adopting onsite SSD shredding as your universal data destruction process eliminates the technical challenges of sanitizing solid state media and provides a one-stop solution to all of your data destruction needs in NYS.

As a Federal and State licensed electronic recycling facility, we provide a Certificate of Destruction that is also a regulatory required environmental compliance document. Our proprietary materials sorting process allows us to recapture nearly 100% of the materials used in the manufacturing of a hard drive, making this a highly efficient method for recycling your hard drives as well as a data security best practice.