Data destruction is a crucial component of business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) planning. Here’s how partnering with Restore Technology secures that continuity.
What constitutes a disaster for your organisation?
Depending on your location and industry, perhaps it’s fire or flood. For others of you on a production line, for instance, a blackout or mechanical stoppage is a massive headache. Still others will regard a data breach or cyberattack as a blow to reputation, as well as the bottom line.
The news is packed with headlines about big name business losses caused by attacks on, and the theft of, data. There can be no doubt that, for most businesses, information is the most valuable asset of all, and we should do what we can to protect it and mitigate for risk.
Creating a secure framework
Data destruction is not just about disposal, it is also a strategic element of, and ‘belt-and-braces’ approach to, BCDR planning that safeguards your most valuable asset – your data – even in the most challenging of circumstances.
1. Risk mitigation and data protection
If IT equipment failure or decommissioning is accelerated by disaster, it’s critical that your company and customer data should not fall into the wrong hands. This is where regular, secure destruction of obsolete or irrelevant data limits the scope, or surface area, of the incident and any ramifications.
2. Regulatory compliance
Not all disasters make the headlines. But stringent data protection law, the UK’s GDPR equivalent, ensures your organisation will be penalised for not safeguarding any data in your care, regardless of the catalyst or situation that caused a breach. Retention and disposal policies are closely associated with paper documentation; however, tracking and disposing of all forms of data, at the correct time, is essential for remaining compliant and prepared for any eventuality.
3. Smoothing recovery operations
Establishing a well-defined disaster recovery programme will not only help minimise downtime and financial loss should the worst happen but also build operational resilience and integrity that helps prevent data loss in the first place. Demonstrating your organisation’s ability to bounce back from potential disruption builds stakeholder trust. Data destruction plays a role in your business continuity planning by making sure obsolete data does not pose a risk, now or in the future.
How Restore Technology builds protection
Our business is accredited to destroy data to the highest levels of security and we are set up to meet the policies and standards of any organisation. We hold full certification for both erasure and physical destruction in a compliant, fully audited service.
Certified data sanitisation
for devices that are reusable by your business or are to enter resale channels, we use industry-leading software to perform multi-pass overwriting of disc data to ensure its illegibility, supplying erasure logs and certificates of destruction for each clean asset.
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Certified data destruction
for all sensitive or non-functioning – because of disaster? – devices, we offer the reassurance of complete destruction via NPSA- and NCSC-approved physical methods of shredding (down to 2mm fragments) or degaussing, completing the package with serial number documentation and video audit trail proofs.
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Unbroken chain of custody
from collaborating on a detailed inventory that includes make, model and serial number as a minimum, to secure, signed-for collection by trained, vetted operatives in tracked company vehicles, through destruction centre entry protocols, your sensitive data is safely in our care from your place to the point of destruction, and beyond.
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Certificates of destruction
after every operation, for your peace of mind and to build a record of your BCDR programme.
Find out moreAt Restore Technology we assist you in building a protective fortress against risk, ensuring that data is not a weak link in your systems and operations.
The first step in that construction process is to get in touch with one of our knowledgeable customer support team to discuss your needs and ideas: 0333 060 1920 will put you directly through to one of us or complete the form below.
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