ITAMG Launches AMS Mobile Data Destruction Unit

IT Asset Management Group has launched its AMS Mobile Data Destruction unit in response to clients' demands for on-site data disposition and destruction measures.

The company says that its AMG Mobile Data Destruction System completely eliminates the chain of custody between an organization and the physical point-of-destruction. The unit was designed to physically destroy hard drives, DLT tapes, medical films, cell phones, PDAs, CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes, floppy disks and other assorted electronic scrap.

In addition to on-site shredding, IT Asset Management Group can perform, on-site, the same suite of data destruction methods offered at its Long Island, N.Y., headquarters.

ITAMG says that it manages data destruction projects and employs standard data destruction methods in accordance with the Department of Defense 5220.22-M standards. At minimum, all drives are overwritten with a multi-pass software wipe. Where a hard drive needs to be rendered useless, a degaussing procedure is used. These methods can be used alone or in conjunction with the shredding solution. ITAMG does not capture, recapture, or market data on any media that it processes.

“The laws that govern information disposition and destruction all deeply impact our corporate clients, regardless of industry. Certain statutes carry significant penalties for non-compliance. In fact, the average cost for a corporate data breach in the United States is $5 million dollars,” says Lisa DeMarco, ITAMG’s vice president of Marketing + Corporate Communications.

“There are generally two types of data destruction laws: those that specifically enumerate how the data must be destroyed and those that mandate the use of a disposition system that meets a qualifying standard,” DeMarco adds. “ITAMG offers our clients the opportunity to customize their disposition experience, allowing them to choose which of their storage media is wiped, which gets degaussed, and which, if any, should be physically shredded.”