If you chose to use TAMS for no other reason than the secure destruction of your important and valuable intellectual property, you will have chosen wisely. No other area receives as much attention or investment at TAMS than the security of our customers data.
When it comes to protecting your data, there’s no room for uncertainty. At TAMS, we provide secure, certified data destruction services to large and enterprise businesses across the country. Whether you need drives erased, shredded, or both—we handle it all, start to finish.
Data destruction is the process of permanently removing data from storage devices to ensure that sensitive information cannot be recovered. This is crucial for maintaining security and compliance within organizations. Two common methods are:
TAMS is a trusted provider of data destruction services, ensuring the secure and permanent removal of sensitive information from storage devices. Here’s why you can trust TAMS with your data destruction needs:
TAMS offers both overwriting and hard drive shredding to ensure data is irrecoverable. Overwriting replaces existing data with meaningless data, allowing for hardware reuse and supporting environmental sustainability. Hard drive shredding physically destroys drives, making data completely irretrievable.
TAMS adheres to rigorous compliance standards, including NAID AAA, ISO, and R2v3 certifications. These certifications ensure that their data destruction processes meet industry-standard security protocols, providing peace of mind to organizations. Additionally, both methods align with NIST 800-88 guidelines, ensuring best practices for data irretrievability.
TAMS offers both in-house and mobile shredding services, allowing clients to witness the destruction process for added assurance. This flexibility ensures that data destruction can be tailored to meet the specific needs of each organization.
By choosing TAMS, you ensure that your data destruction process is secure, compliant, and environmentally responsible, providing a reliable solution for protecting sensitive information.
At TAMS, we offer robust data erasure processes designed to ensure the secure and permanent removal of sensitive information from storage devices. Our methods include:
Both our overwriting and shredding methods adhere to rigorous compliance standards, including:
Some clients prefer physical destruction—and we make that simple. Whether you need us onsite or want someone from your team to witness the process at our facility, we have options that fit your compliance needs.
Onsite shredding is an ideal solution for organizations whose internal policies or requirements mandate that data must be destroyed before leaving their facility. This process involves bringing industrial shredding equipment directly to your location, ensuring that hard drives are physically destroyed on-site. Our shredders are capable of handling more than 12 drives per minute, providing a fast and efficient solution that guarantees sensitive information is irretrievably erased, meeting stringent security and compliance standards without the data ever leaving your premises.
Our witnessed shredding option provides an additional layer of assurance by allowing clients to observe the destruction of their hard drives firsthand. This service is performed at our facility, where clients can personally witness the shredding process. By offering this transparency, we ensure that your sensitive information is irretrievably destroyed in compliance with stringent security standards, providing peace of mind and confidence in the data destruction process.
At TAMS, securing your data-bearing devices is our top priority. Our facilities are equipped with third-party monitored alarm systems, access controls, and CCTV surveillance to create a secure environment. We have been in this business for over two decades without a single data breach, underscoring our commitment to security. Our approach goes beyond industry standards in several key areas. Our employee screening process includes Globalwatch checks, which monitor global watchlists to ensure our team meets the highest security standards. Additionally, our data destruction processes, both physical and logical, are regularly validated by third-party vendors to ensure they exceed industry norms. We provide extensive insurance coverage that exceeds industry norms, offering peace of mind by covering potential risks associated with data handling and destruction. We also adhere to industry-standard practices to maintain our high level of security.
All employees undergo comprehensive background checks and drug tests, sign confidentiality agreements, and receive regular training to handle data-bearing devices securely. We follow NIST 800-88 r1 guidelines for clear and purge methods on data-bearing devices, ensuring thorough data sanitization. Our data destruction service is audited yearly by qualified PCI DSS QSA or ISA professionals, providing an extra layer of assurance in our security practices. Our certifications—NAID AAA, ISO 9001, R2v3, and others—are more than checkboxes. They reflect our dedication to doing things the right way every time.
TAMS distinguishes itself by having our data destruction processes developed and overseen by Utah’s only Certified Secure Destruction Specialist (CSDS) as of April 2025. While the CSDS credential from i-SIGMA is a testament to the individual’s expertise in secure destruction practices, we also ensure that our operations meet the highest standards of data protection and compliance through regular external audits, both scheduled and unannounced, and by maintaining transparent documentation and reporting processes.
Our unwavering commitment to excellence is further reinforced by our ISO 9001 certification, which underscores our adherence to superior quality management standards. Additionally, our data destruction methods, both logical and physical, undergo third-party audits. We regularly send processed data-bearing devices to forensic analysts to verify that our methods effectively obliterate data, ensuring comprehensive security
Operational security is paramount to safeguarding sensitive information and maintaining trust. In addition to our certifications and expertise, our operational security measures include:
We maintain third-party monitored alarm systems, access controls, and CCTV surveillance to ensure a secure environment.
All employees undergo comprehensive background checks and drug tests, sign confidentiality agreements, and receive regular training to handle data-bearing devices securely.
Our destruction processes and policies are transparent and available for review, ensuring that clients understand and trust our methods.
These comprehensive security measures ensure that your data is handled with the utmost care and integrity, providing peace of mind and confidence in our data destruction services.
TAMS has been dedicated to protecting your data, maximizing asset value recovery, and delivering unmatched customer service since 2003. Guided by the TAMS WAY, we go beyond expectations, addressing every project need—even those not initially anticipated—to ensure a truly exceptional experience.
We proudly highlight our unwavering commitment to excellence and adherence to the highest industry standards. Our certifications, including SERI R2v3, I-Sigma NAID AAA, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, and ISO 45001:2018, reflect our dedication to quality management, environmental responsibility, occupational health and safety, and secure data destruction. Additionally, our data destruction processes comply with the stringent NIST-800-88 r1 guidelines, including clear and purge methods, ensuring the secure and thorough erasure of data. Our regular PCI DSS audits, performed by certified PCI QSA/ISA personnel, ensure that systems handling payment information undergo compliant secure data destruction services. These certifications and compliance measures not only demonstrate our commitment to operational excellence but also assure our clients that we meet and exceed the industry’s most rigorous benchmarks for responsible, secure and sustainable IT asset disposition.
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We can securely wipe or shred a wide range of data-storing devices, including hard drives, SSDs, and mobile phones. If a device holds data, our services ensure it is irretrievably destroyed, maintaining the highest standards of security and compliance.
We provide comprehensive documentation for every data destruction job, including a Certificate of Destruction. Additionally, we offer detailed records to verify the proper chain of custody, ensuring transparency and compliance throughout the entire process.
Yes, our methods are fully compliant with industry standards. We adhere to rigorous protocols validated by certifications such as NAID AAA, PCI DSS, ISO 9001, and R2v3. Our processes align with NIST 800-88 guidelines, ensuring that data is irretrievably destroyed. Through regular external audits, both scheduled and unannounced, we maintain the highest standards of data protection and compliance.
Yes, we offer our services anywhere in the U.S.—especially in central data center hubs like Texas, Virginia, and California.
Yes, you can. We offer both onsite shredding and a witnessed shredding option at our facility. With onsite shredding, our team brings industrial shredding equipment directly to your location, allowing you to observe the destruction process firsthand. Alternatively, at our facility, clients can witness their hard drives being destroyed. Both options provide additional assurance that your sensitive information is securely and irretrievably destroyed according to stringent security standards.
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