Data destruction is the last phase of IT equipment lifecycle planning. The end goal is to make sure that no data remains on lease returns, equipment bound for...
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What is a Certificate of Data Destruction?
Perhaps you’ve been asked to provide a certificate of data destruction as a result of an audit or routine chain of custody verification. Or worse, the fallout from a...
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How to select a gold-standard data destruction provider (a checklist)
When you are selecting a data destruction services provider or partner, you have two critical objectives: prevent a data breach. gather verification that 100% of the...
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It’s a Data Destruction Showdown: Shred vs. Erase
To shred or erase? This is a valid question for any decision maker responsible for ensuring that their IT equipment, specifically hard drives, are completely scrubbed...
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How to protect your brand from a data breach
The value of your brand is simple: the earned customer trust encourages repeat sales. All that product development, marketing, service and quality result in market...
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Extreme Onsite Data Destruction – Is it too much to ask?
When is an onsite data destruction project too big? Or too challenging? Extreme? At Guardian, we’re often asked by our VARS if we can handle an onsite data...
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NAID AAA Certification – is it worth it?
Understanding the importance of NAID AAA Certification in the data destruction process is imperative for VARS and ITADs who are subcontracting any type of erasure...
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Guardian’s NJ lift and shift is a move to bigger and better
When Guardian Data Destruction moved from Long Island City, New York to New Jersey, 18,500 sq ft sounded mighty big. Five years later, we’re moving our headquarters...
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What’s on our hearts and minds
Guardian Data Destruction stands in Unity To our Guardian Family of employees, customers, partners, friends and loved ones, Like you, I have been watching the current...
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COVID 19: IAITAM, ITAD, NAID, ITEX Spring 2020 Update
It’s not just businesses that are in limbo, the spring 2020 conference circuit for the data destruction industry is in a state of upheaval due to the impacts of the...
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COVID-19: Guardian thanks 1,700 NJ essential workers with a BBQ
Think globally, act locally. That’s exactly what Glenn Laga, President of Guardian Data Destruction, did. Brainstorming with his long-time friend Steve Rich, the two...
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Data Destruction is a COVID-19 Essential Service FAQs
Secure data destruction and IT asset disposal, due to industry and national security and privacy concerns, have been included as an “essential service” during the...
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