Secure media destruction services
Iron Mountain protects your organisation and your customers’ privacy through our secure media destruction service, which provides a secure and environmentally friendly way to dispose media.

For today’s organisations, privacy challenges are not limited to paper-based information. Iron Mountain works with you to protect your organisation and your customers’ privacy through our Secure Media Destruction Service, which provides a reliable, secure and environmentally friendly way to dispose of backup tapes, DVDs and other non-paper media.
At Iron Mountain, our Secure Media Destruction Service provides confidence and security by rendering plastic media permanently destroyed and non-recoverable—and by ensuring that final disposition is handled in an environmentally friendly manner.
Choosing Iron Mountain as a trusted provider of secure media destruction can yield many benefits:
- Destruction of a broad range of plastic media, including CDs, backup tapes, film, photos, badges, disks, X-rays and bank cards
- Secure transportation of sensitive information
- Trained and security screened personnel
- Accountability with a documented workflow
Available on a project basis, our Secure Media Destruction Service uses proprietary Iron Mountain methodologies that ensure reliability and consistency from collection through final destruction.
With our strict security practices, extensive expertise, proven controls and a documented Chain-of-Custody, you can rely on Iron Mountain to deliver upon your media destruction needs.
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