SECURE SHREDDING

Compliant destruction of sensitive materials: a new corporate imperative

Ever-growing regulations, consumer demands for protection of personal information, and requirements to protect corporate reputation make secure shredding an essential part of your records management programme. Holding information beyond its required retention period incurs unnecessary storage costs and leaves you vulnerable to risks of theft, misuse, disclosure, legal discovery, and non-compliance fines.

Reduce risk and costs through compliant information destruction

Iron Mountain Secure Shredding services can help you establish a secure, compliant, comprehensive, and cost-effective information disposal solution from special projects to fully compliant secure shredding programme development.

Benefits of an Iron Mountain Secure Shredding solution:

• Compliance expertise: Data Protection Act, Freedom of Information Act, Information Security and FSA regulations
  
• Assurance to clients and partners that you'll safeguard their information
  
• Reduced storage requirements and costs with consistent best practices
  
• A dedicated implementation team to assist you during the solution lifecycle
  
• Protects you with strict security practices and an unbroken chain-of-custody
  
• Off-site secure destruction service, including tapes and magnetic media destruction
  
• Certificate of destruction, providing you a legal audit trail
  
• 24/7 access to expert customer support

Your place or ours - documented, secure shredding services for all media

The Iron Mountain team helps define your objectives and develops a plan aligned to your retention schedule. Trained and screened specialists then securely remove sensitive materials and shred them beyond practicable reconstruction at one of our secure facilities.

In addition to paper, Iron Mountain can destroy plastics and most other media, including, x-rays, microfiche/film, binders, computer disks, cartridges, videotapes, CDs, and DVDs. Protection of sensitive materials is ensured through strict security practices and an unbroken chain-of-custody. A certificate of destruction verifies that materials have been destroyed.