CESG Claims Tested Data Destruction Service

Data Eliminate's Secure Destruction of Data on Hard Drives and Magnetic Storage Media v1.0 is available throughout the UK for public sector, central and local government, the NHS and Ministry of Defence use. It can also be used by private companies.

It is available for purchase for the public sector via the ICS Catalogue and on the Ministry of Defence P2P. It can also be ordered using the Government Procurement Card (GPC).

The Service is CESG claims-tested and certified.

You are able to witness that your sensitive data is eliminated from hard drives and magnetic storage media before any IT equipment leaves your control.  It is carried out under your supervision and at a time convenient to you.

The process uses CESG approved degaussing equipment.  It is fully auditable and certificates of destruction are issued.   It facilitates compliance with UK and EU Data Protection and Environmental Recycling regulations (WEEE) and the USA’s Sarbanes Oxley Act.

It is easy and straightforward to Order and includes the removal and environmentally responsible recycling of materials in line with the WEEE Directive (optional).

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As part of our great service, we

1. Complete all the paperwork .
2. Attend your premises.
3. Destroy your data - you can witness the process.
4. Clear Up and Take Everything Away
5. Provide data destruction and environmental compliance certification.
6. Accept payment can be made by debit or credit card.

About The CCTM

The CCTM scheme is run by CESG (Communications-Electronics Security Group) which is part of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham.

The CESG Claims Tested Mark (CCTM) scheme provides a HM Government quality mark to assure public and private bodies of the validity of security functionality claims made by service providers such as Data Eliminate. In more colloquial terms, the CCTM is designed to assure customers that a product or service does ‘what it says on the box’.

Data Eliminate's Secure Destruction of Data on Hard Drives and Storage Media v1.0 service carries the CCTM certification and has been independently tested to ensure that it erases data with a protective marking of HM Government RESTRICTED or below, is fully auditable and meets the environmental disposal requirements.

Independently Tested Claims

The following claims about the Secure Destruction of Data on Hard Drives and Magnetic Storage Media v1.0 have been independently tested:

• Magnetic media will have its data destroyed to the extent that there is no possibility that the original data may be read over the device interface or by playback in a reading device.
  
  
• The service provides the erasure of data (with a protective marking of RESTRICTED or below) from magnetic storage media in compliance with the CESG Lower Level Degaussing Standard.
  
  
• The service provides the customer with the facility to securely destroy data on magnetic media on-site at the customer’s premises. This is achieved by the use of portable equipment taken to the customer site, allowing the entire process to be done within a secure environment as provided by the customer.
  
  
• The service provides secure data destruction on the magnetic media by technical staff fully trained in the use of the degaussing equipment and following the equipment manufacturer’s guidelines.
  
  
• The service may be observed by the customer’s own staff during the process of degaussing. The material with data to be destroyed by our service may be continually witnessed by designated customer staff.
  
  
• The provision of the service meets environmental disposal requirements. At the request of the customer, the service provider will ensure that degaussed media is recycled.
  
  
• The service may be booked at reasonable notice and will come to the customer as requested.
  
  
• The service provides the customer with the option of having the hard drives shredded or recycled by an approved recycling company. The customer will be issued with a certificate of recycling to confirm disposal.
  
  
• The service is fully auditable from the initial customer request for the service to final media destruction and, if required, disposal. At the time of data destruction, Data Eliminate Ltd will provide a serial number label per item for recording purposes.  Alternatively, a pre-existing serial number already on the item may be used.  The customer is provided with a certificate of data destruction at the time of destruction or shortly afterwards.  This provides details of the media degaussed including media type and serial number (where available), date degaussed, by whom it is degaussed and by whom it is witnessed or as required by the customer.