E-Waste Security contracts with NASA

Irvine, California-based E-Waste Security has announced its recent hard drive destruction assignment for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Los Angeles.

NASA, like many government agencies, follows guidelines set forth by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) when disposing of digital media, such as computer hard drives and backup tapes, E-Waste Security says.

E-Waste Security COO Gary Scott says, "The NASA project demonstrates our high level of competency and understanding surrounding issues pertinent to secure data destruction."

The company says NASA will benefit from E-Waste Security's ability to control and destroy digital media as well as to document the destruction process in compliance with NIST 800-88 Guidelines for Media Sanitization. E-Waste Security will also provide NASA’s JPL with:

• on-site data destruction, allowing JPL to have multiple employees witness and verify the destruction of confidential information;
  
• physical hard drive shredding to match the level of destruction that complies with NASA's security regulations; and
  
• a Certificate of Destruction to provide third-party proof of secure and proper information destruction.
  
  

JPL is not the only data-sensitive organization to use E-Waste Security for its data destruction needs, the company says. Other clients include companies in the technology, financial and health care industries as well as government organizations such as the Department of Human Health Services. E-Waste Security says it offers the same secure service to smaller companies concerned about data security, privacy, ID theft and data breach prevention.

“We provide peace of mind to organizations that must comply with stringent data privacy laws such as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), GLBA (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) and FACTA (Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act," Scott says.

Founded in 2012, E-Waste Security provides on-site computer hard drive and digital media destruction and computer recycling services to organizations in Los Angeles, Orange County and San Jose, California.