Delivering data destruction and IT assets services to

Aerospace

Banking & Finance

Education

Government & Nonprofit

Healthcare

Insurance

Legal & Corporate

Manufacturing

Pharmaceutical

Publishing

Real Estate

Research & Development

Retail

Tech & Cloud Providers

Data security for all aerospace entities and airports encompasses a variety of assets from classified DOD development servers to commercial reservation computers and airport kiosks. Aircraft equipment alone are loaded with devices holding proprietary information. Guardian offers DOD-compliant data destruction for secure data wiping, degaussing, sanitization and onsite shredding as fine as 2 mm to meet DOD 5220.22M, NIST 800-88, NSA/CSS 02-01 standards. Guardian’s TSA-approved personnel can provide white glove packing, chain of custody protocols, secure transport, data center services, kiosk removal, copier/printer wiping, and recycling are also applicable to sensitive or classified equipment slated for disposition.

Schools, by their very nature, are warehouses of data on children. Regulations govern privacy, such as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and individual rights, such as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Higher education institutions with research and study departments at the behest of the medical, pharmaceutical, scientific, engineering and other industries are required to meet applicable PHI (personal health information) and financial data sanitization regulations. Guardian provides data destruction services to meet regulatory compliance at all education institution levels as well as IT services for data centers and ethical recycling.

Focusing on reputation and confidentiality, legal and corporate industries are primarily driven by brand protection. The damage from a data breach would be devastating. Legally, they are governed by the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) which requires disposition of consumer data by erasure or destruction. For businesses doing transactions outside of the US, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) stipulates individual rights to data expunging including storage media and devices. Data on end-of-life devices must be completely erased (not just deleted). If credit cards are used for any transaction, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) determines how the cardholder data must be stored, safeguarded and destroyed. For adherence to all regulations, Guardian offers DOD-compliant data destruction for secure data wiping, degaussing, sanitization and onsite shredding as fine as 2 mm to meet DOD 5220.22M, NIST 800-88, NSA/CSS 02-01 standards. Chain of custody protocols, secure transport, data center services, kiosk removal, copier/printer wiping, and recycling are also applicable to sensitive or classified equipment slated for disposition.

Data security for patients’ protected health information (PHI) is protected by Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act​​ (HIPAA) regulations and enforced by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). As such, all data-bearing devices throughout the patient care network including doctors, clinics, hospitals, insurance companies and their authorized associates (e.g., third party administrators, attorneys, CPAs, etc.) are subject to stringent protocols for the final disposition of hardware and electronic media. If credit cards are used for any transaction, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) determines how the cardholder data must be stored, safeguarded and destroyed. Guardian provides secure data destruction (shredding and degaussing as mandated) as well as white glove packing, secure packing and transport, data center services, kiosk removal, chain of custody, copier/printer wiping and recycling to meet compliance standards.

In publishing, the data at risk includes subscriber information, credit card data, contractual and payment data, competitive planning and of course intellectual property rights. There is a network of state, federal and EU regulations protecting various aspects of this data including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for Publishers, the California Consumer Privacy Act and the updated Children Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) which requires a method of deletion of web-based cookies, ad-tech data and mobile advertising IDs. If credit cards are used for any transaction, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) determines how the cardholder data must be stored, safeguarded and destroyed. Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Document Act (PIPEDA) data privacy law protects users’ personal information such as age, name, ID number, occupation, income, and more. Guardian offers DOD-compliant data destruction for secure data wiping, degaussing, sanitization and onsite shredding as fine as 2 mm. White glove and end of life packing, chain of custody, secure transport, data center services, copier/printer wiping, and recycling are also applicable to sensitive or classified equipment slated for disposition.

Retailers of any size are subject to data destruction regulation due to the high volume of personally identifiable information (PII) and payment card information (PCI) changing hands with every transaction. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) stipulates individual rights to data expunging including storage media and devices. Data on end-of-life devices must be completely erased (not just deleted). The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) requires any business or individual that uses consumer data must dispose of electronic data by erasure or destruction. Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) determines how merchants, retail outlets, eCommerce sites and software must store, safeguard and destroy cardholder data. On the state level, at least 35 states have implemented their own laws regarding data protection and privacy. Most well known is the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). For adherence to all these regulations and industry compliance guidelines, Guardian offers DOD-compliant data destruction for secure data wiping, degaussing, sanitization and onsite shredding as fine as 2 mm. White glove and end of life packing, secure transport, data center services, kiosk removal, copier/printer wiping, and recycling are also applicable to sensitive or classified equipment slated for disposition.