Secure IT Asset Disposition
The pace and demand for new electronic devices and IT assets is increasing. Studies show that most Fortune 500 companies assign, on average, 3.5 devices per employee (1). As older IT assets reach obsolescence, they continue to pile up. Organizations like yours must have a clear strategy for IT asset disposition.
Data security and data privacy regulations, along with the proper disposition of electronic waste (e-waste), are forcing you to more closely evaluate disposal and recycling processes for electronic media destruction. Without secure and environmentally friendly procedures for data destruction; destroying and recycling or repurposing electronics, your company may be at risk for data breaches, regulatory penalties, and a damaged brand reputation.
IT Asset Management: What if you could securely manage your old, obsolete, or decommissioned IT equipment?
The Iron Mountain® Secure IT Asset Disposition service helps you destroy and recycle or repurpose numerous IT asset types via reliable, environmentally friendly, and secure services capabilities and best practices.
Secure Chain-of-Custody
With auditable verification and strict security practices that include GPS tracking, protected transportation, and a documented chain-of-custody, you’ll know the physical location of your assets. This way you can be confident that your data will remain protected throughout the process.
Secure IT Asset Disposition At A Glance
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Items Accepted
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Offsite
Destruction
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Onsite
Destruction
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IT equipment (e.g., desktops, laptops, servers,
mainframes, printers, cable and wiring, etc.)
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✔
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Office equipment (e.g., copiers, scanners,
fax machines, phones, etc.)
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✔
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Audio/visual equipment (e.g., televisions,
projectors, speakers, etc.)
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✔
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Consumer electronics (e.g., cameras, GPS,
audio/theater, gaming, etc.)
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✔
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Other assets (e.g., batteries, retail POS,
medical test equipment, etc.)
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✔
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Computer hard drives ***
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✔
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✔
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CDs/DVDs
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✔
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✔
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Backup tapes
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✔
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✔
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USB cards and jump drives
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✔
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✔
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SD cards
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✔
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✔
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Microfilm/microfiche
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✔
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ID badges
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✔
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Bank cards
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✔
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Photographs/audio and video tapes
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✔
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Medical and hazardous waste are not accepted
*** Erasure and degaussing services also available for disk drives with or without destruction
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Data Security
Prior to IT Asset Disposition, you must ensure that all computer media and associated data is permanently destroyed and non-recoverable. Iron Mountain Secure Media Destruction service helps you establish a defensible, documented, and repeatable process to prepare, handle or transport, and destroy the data that resides on your electronic media either at your data center or at an offsite destruction facility.
With Iron Mountain, you can
- Destroy hard drives, backup tapes, and other electronic storage media to remain compliant with data privacy regulations
- Improve audit readiness using workflows that include security personnel assigned to monitor the destruction process
- Ensure your media scheduled for offsite destruction is securely transported with dedicated routes, 24x7 GPS tracking, and thoroughly vetted drivers
- Avoid inadvertent disclosures by destroying even your most sensitive or unencrypted data in the right manner at the right time
E-Stewards® Certified Disposal Process
You gain the advantage of partnering with e-Stewards® certified Electronic Recycler, which gives you an auditable process to ensure that no electronic waste is exported, land-filled, or incinerated. By partnering with a trusted company that is e-Stewards® certified, you’ll know that your IT Asset Disposition strategy will meet the strictest compliance regulations.
What You Gain
- Best-practice based disposition methodologies that ensure reliability and consistency from collection through final destruction of end-of-life IT assets
- Compliant, environmentally correct disposal of potentially hazardous e-waste
- Peace of mind that your critical information isn’t lost, stolen or jeopardized in any way
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