Data destruction

The purpose of data destruction is to completely remove data on data carriers such as hard drives so that they can no longer be recovered or read. And then mostly after phasing out a computer or data carriers. This is important for several reasons:

1. Protection of sensitive information: To prevent confidential data from falling into the wrong hands.
2. Compliance with laws and regulations: To comply with AVG legislation.
3. Preventing data leaks: Destroying data helps reduce the risk of data leaks.
4. Security when disposing of equipment: When hardware, such as hard drives or other storage media, is discarded or recycled, it is important to destroy the data on it.

In short, data destruction is a crucial part of data management, information security and ISO27001.

When you think of data destruction, the first thing that comes to mind is hard drives. When computers or laptops are discarded after a working life and go to recycling or a collector, you have to consider the information still on the hard drives.

But even depreciated cell phones still contain personal data from the previous user and must also be properly destroyed.

Data destruction is important for every digital medium imaginable.

Hard disks, back up tapes, cell phones, usb sticks, CDs and DVDs and basically anything else that can hold digital information must be properly destroyed before it leaves your organization.

The shredder is the safest way to destroy data. Only with a data shredder can you really be absolutely 100% sure that the data has been destroyed and can never be retrieved by anyone again. With overwriting of data the so-called WIPEN there can always be doubt whether something can perhaps still be retrieved.

Destroying data is an extremely precise and labor-intensive job that should only be left to specialists. Moreover, before you destroy them, all data carriers must be registered.

Yes you can! There are free programs on the Internet that allow you to wipe hard drives. This takes a lot of time and you really have to be careful that you have done everything. Furthermore, you don’t get any proof or certificate of course. For a private person this may work well but for professional use it is not recommended. A good way to physically destroy hard disks seems very difficult for the home hobbyist. With a hard disk shredder it really works better. But a bang with the hammer may also be sufficient for the average private person.

On-site destruction of hard drives with a mobile hard drive shredder is truly the best and safest method available. The mobile hard disk shredder comes to your company and under the watchful eye of the customer the hard disks and all other digital media are destroyed. In this way it is totally impossible for entire data carriers to go out into the world.

The mobile hard disk shredder is a very expensive installation built into a heavy truck. It is started up especially for you to destroy your batch of data carriers on location. If we take your data carriers, they are all scanned into a batch at our warehouse in Veghel at the end of the working day together with the hard disks of all other customers of that day in our stationary shredder. This is considerably faster and cheaper.