You have a secure document destruction program to protect your hardcopy confidential information, but how are you disposing of your electronically stored confidential information? Like hardcopy information, data stored electronically are also covered by HIPAA and FACTA disposal rules. Unlike hardcopy information, however, electronically-stored information is further regulated by the EPA and must be recycled in an environmentally-responsible manner after destruction.

LifeSpan offers two types of AAA NAID certified services for electronic data destruction:

Physical Destruction – Physical destruction can be performed in one of two ways: Customer Onsite Location – Destruction can be performed at your office or data center location. LifeSpan AAA NAID Certified Destruction Facility - We will physically destroy your drives rendering them useless so that the data will not be retrievable. The crushed drives will then be recycled in an environmentally-responsible manner. Video of crushing process Destroyed Drive

Sanitization (wiping) - LifeSpan’s software-based data destruction process (also known as a “wipe” or “scrub”) ensures the complete erasure of all data from customer disk drives and other electronic storage media. LifeSpan uses commercially-available toolsets for performing software-based data destruction. These software tools overwrite all data – including partitions, files, files tables, dynamic drive overlays, and boot record information. Sanitization of systems with internal hard drives: Capacity to wipe over 300 individual drives simultaneously:

• Conformance with U.S. Department of Defense data destruction standards (DoD 5220.22-M and NIST 800-88)
• Support of all types of hard drive subsystems: IDE, SCSI, ATA, Fibre Channel, SATA and SAS
• Standard and customized data destruction methods (up to 99 passes)