Regional Computer Recycling And Recovery Earns Top Naid Sanitization Certification

April 18, 2011 - PRLog -- ROCHESTER, NEW YORK – The National Association for Information Destruction (NAID), the trade association for the secure data destruction industry, is proud to announce that Regional Computer Recycling & Recovery (RCRR) (Victor, NY), has been awarded NAID AAA Certification for Sanitization Operations.

“Almost every computer recycling company pays lip service to data security,” stated NAID CEO Bob Johnson. “But you know they are serious about it when they successfully complete the NAID Certification process.”

Only seven other asset management firms have earned the NAID AAA Certified for Sanitization Operations designation.

According to Johnson, there is good reason for these firms to be proud of being part of such an elite group.  “ The NAID AAA Certification program for Sanitization Operations is the only certification in the industry that relies on both announced and unannounced audits, is conducted by third-party, accredited security professionals, and that tests and verifies the sanitization processes by sending random drives to one the nation’s top forensics labs.”  Johnson adds, “Customers of these firms especially value the program because it goes beyond their capability to verify these things themselves.”

Hundreds of government offices and tens of thousands of businesses across the United States require NAID Certification of their data destruction vendors.  Most recently, the US Veterans Administration, the largest healthcare network in the country, mandated NAID Certification of all its physical destruction data destruction contractors.

About Regional Computer Recycling & Recovery:
Regional Computer Recycling & Recovery (RCR&R) offers asset management and environmental recycling for idle, obsolete and non-working technology products throughout the Northeast United States. Services include full EPA/R2 and state regulatory compliance, transportation, sorting, processing, de-manufacturing, asset management and physical hard drive destruction. Since 1995 over 5000 corporations, educational institutions and municipalities have participated in RCR&R programs. More information is available at www.eWASTE.com.

About NAID:
NAID is the 17-year-old non-profit trade association of the secure information destruction industry, currently representing over 1,700 member-locations around the world.  NAID’s mission is to promote the secure destruction industry through education and the enforcement of high security and ethical standards.

About NAID AAA Certification of Sanitization Operations:

NAID uses both surprise and scheduled audits to continually confirm compliance with the required written procedures and the quality control regime of participants.  NAID verifies the effectiveness of sanitization of hard drives through third-part forensic examination of control hard drives, as well as hard drives randomly removed from the applicant’s processed inventory. NAID’s 15 independent auditors are required to be Certified Protection Professionals, the highest professional security accreditation available through ASIS International.

Complete details available at www.naidonline.org