Securely destroying end-of-life hard drives to protect retired enterprise data systems for a $94b CPG company
- largest CPG
- #2
- annual revenue
- $94bn
- hard drives destroyed
- 15K+
Challenges
World's 2nd largest CPG company needed to retire hard drives containing sensitive operational data without creating data exposure or disposal risks.
Corporate security policies and environmental regulations required verifiable destruction, documented custody, and responsible disposal for each storage device.
The project required a controlled process separating secure data destruction from downstream materials handling and final disposition.
Technologies
- Hard drives
- chain-of-custody documentation
- secure media destruction
- electronic-waste disposal
- corporate security policies
- environmental regulations
Solution
Identified, collected, and securely destroyed hard drives holding sensitive data through a documented end-of-life handling process.
Maintained chain-of-custody records from collection through destruction to preserve traceability and support security-policy requirements for each device.
Directed retired hard-drive materials to environmentally compliant disposal, separating data-risk controls from electronic-waste handling requirements.
Outcomes delivered
Securely destroyed more than 15,000 end-of-life hard drives.
Maintained documented chain-of-custody traceability through destruction and disposition.
Supported secure and environmentally compliant handling of retired media.
Reduced potential data-exposure risk during hardware retirement activities.