ALM certifications and standards

Certifications for our Regency Technologies facilities

At Regency Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Iron Mountain ALM, all eight of our facilities hold the following certifications:

• E-Stewards: The e-Stewards Standard for Ethical and Responsible Reuse, Recycling, and Disposition of Electronic Equipment and Information Technology Version 4.1 – e-Stewards Certification sets the highest standard for ethical and innovative retired electronic asset processing in the world. e-Stewards certified processors ethically repair and recycle retired electronic assets. The standard enforces requirements focusing on topics including but not limited to Data Security, Downstream Due Diligence, Legal Transboundary Movements, Proper Reuse & Refurbishment, Communications (Internal & External), Continuous Improvement, and Environmental Management Systems. You can learn more at https://e-stewards.org/
• RIOS:2016 – The Recycling Industry Operating Standard: The RIOS standard is an integrated Quality, Environmental, Health and Safety Management System that is designed specifically for recyclers. Built on the well-established Plan-Do-Check-Act model, the RIOS standard takes a risk-based approach to addressing all QEHS risks and impacts within a recycling facility.
• ISO 14001: 2015 (Environmental Management System): Committing to eco-friendly practices and sustainability when receiving, sorting, demanufacturing, testing, resale, and data destruction of Electronic Equipment.
• NAID AAA Certification: NAID is the standards setting body for the information destruction industry. NAID AAA Certification verifies the qualifications of certified information destruction providers through a comprehensive scheduled and unannounced audit program. Iron Mountain is NAID AAA certified for hard drive shredding for the Asset Lifecycle Management business.

The above certifications all apply to the following Regency Technologies (Iron Mountain ALM) facilities:

• Austell, Georgia
• Brooksville, Florida
• Chicago, Illinois
• Durham, North Carolina
• Grand Prairie, Texas
• Phoenix, Arizona
• Stow, Ohio
• Tumwater, Washington

Certifications for Iron Mountain facilities

We are working towards certification in the Iron Mountain ALM facility based in Moissy, France for ISO 9001: 2015 (Quality Management System), ISO 14001: 2015 (Environmental Management System), ISO 45001: 2018 (Occupational Health & Safety Management System) and Responsible Recycling (R2v3).

Teraware Data Sanitization Platform

• NIST 800-88: Once every asset to be decommissioned has been identified, Teraware goes to work. Teraware’s agent-based architecture scales to any size job; whether it’s one drive or 100,000, Teraware erases all drives concurrently, minimizing customer data exposure risk window. NIST 800-88 is descriptive with regard to media types, chain of custody, methods of destruction, and reporting. ITRenew follows NIST 800-88 and goes a step further, exceeding all industry standards and compliance.
• ADISA Certified Data Sanitization: The Asset Disposal & Information Security Alliance (ADISA) offers accreditation to companies that maintain the highest standards in IT asset disposal and data sanitization. Only nine companies worldwide are expected to achieve ADISA data sanitization accreditation for both HDDs and SSDs in 2020.
  • Passed ADISA Threat Matrix Level 2: Iron Mountain's proprietary sanitization platform, Teraware, is the only software to have done so for multiple types of SSDs and HDDs (incl. SATA-HDD, SAS-HDD, SATA-SSD, SAS-SSD, FC-SSD, and NVMe-SSD)
  • Only sanitization platform to pass ADISA accreditation using the latest drive technologies (NVMe) and capacities (10TB+)
  • 17 Certificates for Forensic Data Erasure of SSDs and HDDs