Paladin provides certified data destruction that permanently erases sensitive information from retired IT equipment. We hold the highest industry certifications and deliver certificates proving your data is gone for good—whether it’s laptops, servers, mobile devices, or hard drives.
Data erasure and drive destruction may be performed for all types of IT assets prior to redeployment, resale, and recycling. Paladin offers data erasure and hard drive destruction services onsite at your facility, or after transport to one of ours locations. Wherever you choose the service to be performed, we provide NAID AAA certified software-driven erasure and shredding options that comply with NIST guidelines.
Receive detailed audit reports including serial numbers, asset tag recording, destruction method, and asset value recovery.
The answer depends on your media type, data sensitivity, and regulatory requirements. Paladin destroys all storage device types—hard drives, SSDs, servers, laptops, mobile devices, USB drives, backup tapes, and networking equipment—using three certified methods:
Degaussing uses powerful magnetic fields to scramble data on traditional hard drives and backup tapes, meeting NIST 800-88 Purge standards. Works within seconds but doesn’t apply to solid-state drives or flash media.
Industrial shredding physically destroys all device types into 2mm particles, meeting NIST 800-88 Destroy standards—the highest sanitization level. This universal approach works for HDDs, SSDs, smartphones, and tablets.
Software-based data wiping overwrites data with verified patterns, meeting NIST 800-88 Clear standards for equipment destined for resale or redeployment.
For mixed device types in enterprise IT refreshes, industrial shredding provides universal coverage with legally defensible certificates that satisfy regulatory requirements.
HIPAA Security Rule § 164.310(d)(2)(i) requires covered entities to address final disposition of electronic protected health information (ePHI). Physical destruction meeting NIST 800-88 Destroy standards is widely recognized as the most secure disposal method for HIPAA compliance.
Paladin’s healthcare ITAD services include:
Business Associate Agreements (BAA) establishing the legal relationship required when third parties handle ePHI. Our standard BAA covers destruction services and liability terms healthcare compliance officers need before releasing devices.
Audit trail documentation proving ePHI destruction occurred, including facility location, destruction date and time, NIST-compliant method used, and serial numbers tying certificates back to your asset inventory.
Integrated processing within Paladin-owned facilities eliminates subcontractor risk by keeping destruction activities in-house, ensuring secure chain of custody and strengthening compliance throughout the asset lifecycle.
Look for these three industry-standard certifications:
Every asset processed receives a certificate listing devices by serial number, specifying the destruction method used, confirming NIST sanitization level achieved, and including our NAID AAA certification number for third-party verification.
Certificates are digitally signed, securely archived, and delivered via our secure portal. This documentation proves due diligence during regulatory audits and provides legal defensibility if data exposure claims arise.
Paladin coordinates enterprise IT refreshes across multiple locations through our proprietary software platform providing real-time asset tracking and automated certificate generation. Our Tampa and Lakeland processing centers serve clients throughout the Southeast, while our service network extends nationwide.
Single-source accountability means one contract, one chain-of-custody, and one certificate covering all locations—eliminating the coordination complexity of managing separate regional vendors.
Contact us to discuss your specific project requirements, compliance frameworks, and asset inventory characteristics.
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Schedule a facility tour at our Tampa or Lakeland operations to evaluate chain-of-custody protocols, witness destruction methodology demonstrations, and review certificate generation systems.