Green Delete receives international certification

CHICAGO — Green Delete, a provider of data disposal within an organization’s secure environment, said it has become the first company to receive international certification for true on-site data sanitization through the AAA Certification of Sanitization Operations from the National Association for Information Destruction, the international nonprofit trade association of the secure destruction industry.

Additionally, Green Delete’s Chief Technology Officer Greg Reuter and Senior Project Manager Avery Sullivan are among approximately 100 people worldwide who have earned the NAID Certified Secure Destruction Specialists accreditation. Reuter’s and Sullivan’s CSDS certification, along with the company’s new AAA certification means Green Delete technicians follow the highest international standards when they go inside their customers’ secure physical environments.

“The security of the data is what is most important,” said Reuter. “The concept of addressing data where it resides seems simple enough, yet most solutions on the market today fail to make it easy on the customer or the firm providing information technology asset distribution (ITAD) services.

“Current data destruction solutions require data to be moved off-site creating an increased risk in chain of custody, such as theft or a data breach. Green Delete’s unique data eradication service changes the model and benefits both the customer and the ITAD provider by focusing on data security, speed of eradication, and minimal impact inside the customer’s secure environment,” he added.

NAID CEO Bob Johnson praised Green Delete for lending its expertise to help NAID create the new on-site certification standards, which benefit the entire worldwide industry.

“We were lucky to have had a firm with the integrity and dedication of Green Delete help us develop those standards for on-site computer sanitization. Again, we see that quality service providers realize they owe their clients such reassurances.”