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Data Destruction Standards
Sims Recycling Solutions operates to the highest standards when it comes to data security. Our data wiping is NIST-compliant and our data destruction follows the requirements of both the Department of Defense and Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- This is the standard Sims Recycling Solutions adheres to in our hard drive wiping operations.
- This process may include overwriting not only the logical storage location of a file(s) (e.g., file allocation table) to be erased or deleted, but also the entire media including all addressable locations. The security goal of the overwriting process is to replace sensitive data with nonsensitive random data.
- Media should be overwritten a minimum of three times using a method based on the information sensitivity contained on the media.
- Current editions no longer contain any references to specific sanitization methods. Standards for sanitization are left up to the Cognizant Security Authority.
- The Defense Security Service (DSS) provides a Clearing and Sanitization Matrix (C&SM) which does specify methods.
- Although the NISPOM text itself never described any specific methods for sanitization, past editions (1995 and 1997) did contain explicit sanitization methods within the DSS C&SM table inserted after Section 8-306.
- As of the Nov 2007 edition of the DSS C&SM, overwriting is no longer acceptable for sanitization of magnetic media. Only degaussing (with an NSA approved degausser) or physical destruction is acceptable.
- Sims Recycling Solutions shredding facilities all meet these requirements for physical destruction.
- Up to A/B/Confidential data: Triple overwrite using RCMP DSX software (or equivalent)
- C/Secret/Top Secret data: Physical destruction or degaussing
- Sims Recycling Solutions is approved by the RCMP to destroy proprietary products such as hard drives and data tapes.