Being faced with an audit can be an exercise in terror; just saying the word induces stress. Yet an audit can work to your advantage if you are well prepared with the right documentation and professional contractors on your side. With an R2 Responsible Recycler like TechWaste to help implement an IT asset management strategy and handle the proper destruction of your e-waste, your stress level and time involved can plummet.
What Does Being Audit-Ready Mean?
Being audit-ready isn’t the same as being 100% compliant with ITAM; the standards are somewhat fluid and rely on too many different players and hardware. Being audit-ready means that you have done everything reasonable to protect the chain of custody and ensure that, should an audit occur, you are ready with plenty of documentation to make it as painless as possible.
How Can Electronic Waste Be Made Audit-Ready?
E-waste destruction can be made audit-ready by using an EPA-certified recycler like TechWaste. They meticulously document the entire chain of custody of your storage devices from consumer to ultimate disposition and generate a report that can include asset type, manufacturer information, serial number and even pictures of the irreversibly destroyed IT asset.
Why Is Audit-Ready E-Waste Recycling So Important?
Too many people think that deleting information protects your data. Some more advanced users will use digital file shredders and other techniques to remove data, but even this may not enough to prevent criminals from accessing it. Most storage devices need to be physically destroyed top of data wiping for permanent access denial on.
If you contract with another company, government agency or NGO, they will often have strict requirements for data protection. Using a certified e-waste recycler is excellent proof that you’ve done everything you reasonably can to ensure that everyone involved, from owners and stockholders through employees and customers, have had their data as carefully protected as is possible.
Even if you don’t work with an organization that requires it, using a certified electronic waste recycler demonstrates your good-faith intent to keep your company’s data safe to customers worried about identity theft, and is courtroom-level evidence of your responsible stewardship of sensitive data in case of a lawsuit.
TechWaste is an R2-certified electronics recycler with decades of experience managing e-waste’s chain of custody. We have time-tested procedures to ensure that, once your electronics are received, no one can ever retrieve your data. Our audit-ready report uses an optimal layout for auditors to quickly follow the waste from reception to destruction, dramatically reducing the time of the audit and keeping the auditors pleased with the process and the veracity of the report.
TechWaste Recycling directly services all of Southern California and provides pickup services to its facilities from nationwide locations. Visit TechWaste Recycling’s website at www.techwasterecycling.com to schedule a pickup that works for your convenience and schedule.
Learn more about TechWaste’s audit ready asset destruction process here: Serialized Destruction of IT Assets
Contact Info:
Richard Steffens
1940 E. Occidental street
Santa Ana, CA 92705
Phone: 866-637-8469
