Mutilation/crushing of hard drives and solid state drives (SSD)

Data destruction that won’t crush your budget. Always available onsite or offsite.

How can you offer high quality, reassuring data destruction for low quantity projects or a mixed bag of different media and devices?

Guardian’s hard drive mutilation/crushing service delivers DOD compliance for keyboard attack — and secure, compliant data destruction.

Hard Drives. Mangled beyond accessibility.

Designed specifically for low, low quantities, hard drives are spiked at multiple locations and all connectivity access points to ensure that data is unable to be retrieved by keyboard access.

This method is also used for failed drive erasures and meets DOD requirements for keyboard attacks.

Build the best solution

For the most secure solution at a not-so-scary price, combine crushing and destroying with degaussing or conventional 30 mm shredding to ensure total destruction.

And, ask about our pack, ship and logistics options for a single source solution.

“Thank you for the outstanding service we’ve received so far. Your crews are professional, efficient and easy to work with. I am extremely grateful for the continued support.”

Crushing the problem

Whether you have hard drives, thumb drives, flash drives, solid state drives (SSD) or a combination, Guardian physically crushes the hardware into a compressed, thoroughly mangled clump. All the memory chips are spiked, penetrated and perforated as part of the crushing process and your client is assured that NSA standards have been adhered to.

Hard drive mutilation and crushing service options include:

Device serial # scan
Inventory validation and reconciliation
On your schedule
Full audit with reporting
Rigorous chain of custody documentation
Documentation for compliance, audits and reports
Onsite, offsite or hybrid

Single source vendor (shred, erasure, pulverization, audit, packing, shipping, logistics, etc.)
Lockable storage, secure cases and cages
Hard drive removal from device
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15+ years of data destruction service and NAID AAA Certification

NIST certified equipment.
In compliance with regulatory and legal mandates.
Written and enforced data destruction processes.
Trained, bonded, uniformed workforce with security clearance.

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Guardian offers more

Onsite hard drive mutilation and crushing decreases the risk of data breaches, theft or loss in transit. With our mobile data destruction trucks and global partnerships we can destroy data just about anywhere.

Our standardized processes and flexible approach create a consistent process that fits neatly into any project scope and any partner agreements.

Guardian follows a hands-on project management policy so that any issues (there will inevitably be one) are vetted, communicated, escalated and resolved as quickly as possible.