Resource 1, a data security and destruction firm headquartered in Chattanooga announced they have attained the ‘AAA Certification’ for ‘Mobile Hard Drive Destruction’ from NAID, the National Association for Information Destruction.
The company is now the only non-franchised data security and destruction company in Tennessee that holds this designation from NAID for onsite physical computer media destruction.
Resource 1 was founded in 2007 as a subsidiary of local systems integration firm Harwood International. In 2015 former Harwood Executive Chuck McDonald acquired the company. The company’s focus was shifted, and it now offers a secure method of eliminating the risk of data loss from retired server and computer data-bearing devices. Their mobile platform for destroying computer hard drives and magnetic tapes, (containing private information,) eliminates all chain-of-custody risks associated with traditional plant-based media destruction.
“We are proud to further prove our commitment to the growing data-security sector by helping organizations keep private consumer and patient information private,” Mr. McDonald stated, “and this accreditation demonstrates our compliance with operational and security specifications created by the IT industry’s top information security professionals.”
The national AAA certification will allow Resource 1 to continue to assure that organizations remain compliant with laws that govern data-security at a computer system’s end-of-life. The firm currently assists clients in a multitude of industries including healthcare, manufacturing, law, finance, accounting, education military, government utilities, aerospace and more. Resource 1’s service area encompasses the entire Southeast including Atlanta, Birmingham, Knoxville, Nashville, Huntsville, Memphis, Greenville, as well as national accounts in California, New Jersey, Minnesota, and Illinois.
For more information about Resource 1’s secure services, contact them at info@resource1electronics.com.