Data Erasure and Destruction

Onsite and offsite degaussing, erasure, and physical shredding services—coupled with an industryleading chain-of-custody process mitigate the risks of a potential data security breach. 

De-Installation and Asset Removal 

Skilled service technicians perform hardware deinstallations and serialized audits onsite at a client’s office or data center.

Asset Processing

Each asset is audited and tracked throughout the disposition process regardless of which processing center handles the asset. Detailed serialized reporting is available for every asset.

Refurbishment and Repair

For maximum value recovery, we refurbish systems for reuse, including repairs or upgrades when cost
effective.

Redeployment

Repurpose equipment for use elsewhere within your organization. We will sanitize the data, repair and refurbish the assets as needed, and redeploy them with on-demand order fulfillment.

Responsible Recycling

As a certified e-Stewards Electronics recycler, Hussar Systems' partner adheres to stringent requirements to ensure electronic waste is processed in compliance with all local, state and federal regulations.

Chain-of-Custody

Serialized asset tracking available from pickup
through final disposition.

Accountability

Best-in-class technology ensures visibility anywhere
in the world

Compliance

Data destruction and e-waste services that comply
with local, regional and federal laws.

Certifications

Hussar Systems' partner ITAD processing facilities adhere to
data security, environmental responsibility, and
quality, health and safety processes as defined by
industry standards including e-Stewards, ISO 9001,
ISO 14001, ISO 27001, and ISO 45001.

Certifications vary by country.

IT Asset Disposition, or ITAD, is the process of managing the decommissioning of end-of-use IT assets in a manner that ensures data security and environmental compliance while maximizing residual value.

An ITAD partner will collect your IT assets and make sure your company data is removed either by using software to overwrite the data or physically destroying the hard drives.

Once the data has been sanitized and if the system still has value, the equipment can be redeployed within the organization for reuse or sold on the secondary market, allowing the company to recover the residual value. If the systems are non-functional, too old to be of further use, and are unable to be reused or resold, the ITAD processor will recycle the assets in a responsible and compliant manner.

An ITAD program protects organizations from liability using secure and compliant services to manage the end-of-life of
their IT assets. Such programs are important for five main reasons:

• Protects from data breaches
• Ensures regulatory compliance
• Promotes environmental sustainability
• Maximizes recovery values
• Provides detailed asset tracking

Protects from Data Breaches

Every year, thousands of data breaches occur and expose millions of records. In fact, data breaches cost an
organization an average of $3.86M in hard and soft costs (Ponomon Institute 2020 Cost of a Data Breach Report). While
many of these instances are due to stolen information, ransomware and phishing schemes, every disposed piece
of IT equipment that contains confidential information is at risk unless the data is first sanitized. Ensuring your data is
destroyed by wiping, shredding or degaussing hard drives is essential to the security of any IT disposition program.

Ensures Regulatory Compliance

Businesses — both large and small — contend with an intimidating amount of legislation concerning the
processing and destruction of data recorded on corporate systems. Failure to meet the standards set forth in the
ever-expanding list of regulations can have a range of consequences and monetary fines may be the least serious
of them.

Federal regulations exist on top of innumerable other statespecific data privacy and disposal laws that your company
might be subject to. Using an ITAD provider that can deliver certificates of recycling, data erasure, destruction
and disposal and that provides liability indemnification can give you peace of mind while ensuring that you are in
compliance with relevant regulations.

Promotes Environmental Sustainability

Now more than ever, organizations are focused on helping reduce the environmental impact of their end-of-use
devices. One way to support these initiatives is through an intentional approach to asset disposition. By implementing a
data sanitization policy and focusing on steering functional assets towards reuse instead of recycling, organizations can
protect their company data while making more sustainable decisions.

For equipment that cannot be reused, an e-Stewards certified ITAD program will ensure that all e-waste is
responsibly recycled and that processes are performed with core objectives that include data security, health
and worker safety, no exporting, no prison labor and no dumping or incineration – making your ITAD program
an integral part of your Corporate Social Responsibility program.

Maximizes Recovery Values

Extracting the maximum residual value from your company’s end-of-use products is one of the most
profitable ways to use IT disposition and recovery services to your advantage. Equipment that is not needed for
redeployment, but that still has value, is sold in secondary markets through a variety of channels (B2C, B2B,
liquidation and auction) to receive an optimal return on the assets.

Provides Detailed Asset Tracking

Secure and detailed reporting of assets at end-of-life is critical to ensure accountability within an ITAD program.
Online portals will provide you with the ability to track assets throughout the disposition process, providing a
documented and auditable trail of final disposition status and data destruction certificates for every asset disposed of.