Compliant Media
Destruction for Maryland Businesses
Our secure media destruction options protect your organization, employees, and clients from the negative impacts of improper disposal. Depending on the nature of your business, state, federal, and industry-specific regulations apply to ensure correct safeguards are in place.
Media destruction is often the most effective way to protect your Maryland or Virginia organization against a data breach as devices are physically destroyed, making the confidential data impossible to retrieve.
Media Shredding & Destruction in Rockville, MD
Digitally or electronically stored information is just as vulnerable as hard copy records, and Patriot Shredding provides solutions to private sector, government, and military clients across Maryland & Washington, DC, and surrounding areas.
Our dedicated media shredders and equipment offer the fastest throughputs available, which translates into significant time and cost savings for our customers.
We can handle dedicated large-scale projects by the truckload and work closely with R2-certified downstream vendors to ensure the shredded materials are properly disposed of.
Types of Media That Can Be Shredded
Although hard drives are the most common type of electronic storage devices, many businesses still use a wide range of media to store, share, and access confidential information.
Our dedicated media shredders in the Rockville, Maryland, area can completely destroy media, including but not limited to the following:
- Hard drive disk
- Floppy disk
- Magnetic tapes (LTO, DLT, DAT)
- Compact disc (CD)
- DVD and Blu-ray discs
- USB flash drive
- Secure digital card (SD card)
- Solid state drive (SSD)
- X-Rays
- Other media (by request)
Data Storage Concerns
A single unencrypted USB drive small enough to fit in the palm of your hand could contain enough information to harm an organization or be used to introduce malware to a corporate network from an external source.
