TDG ‘s Media Sanitization and Destruction program assures Federal Agencies that their sensitive media and data are destroyed in full accordance with NIST Special Publication 800-88 Rev. 1 “Guidelines for Media Sanitization” December 2014.
For the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) we sanitize and destroy all media at our Media and Data facility in Herndon, VA. We provide secure operational space to perform both the sanitization and destruction of each hard drive, tape media, floppy disk, optical disk, data and/or audio cassette, microfiche, printer ribbon, x-ray, removable USB/memory, hand-held devices, such as cellular phones (including smartphones), iPads, Tablets, digital cameras or other media type. We only use equipment listed in the most recent NSA approved Product Listing and destroyed media onsite with our own machines by shredding or burning in an EPA approved incinerator.
We have developed proprietary software that provides a portal for VA users to inventory and track their media through the sanitization and destruction process. Once the media is destroyed, we provide Certificates of Destruction back to the VA user.
A Risk Mitigation Plan is provided for each Client to address the risks associated with sanitizing and destroying sensitive electronic media including, loss or theft, and the mitigation of these risks.