Data Shredding Services of Texas of Houston; DFW Shredding of Plano, Texas; MDS Records Management of Des Moines, Iowa; Rapid Information Destruction (RID) Services of Sacramento, Calif. and Shred With Us of West Columbia, S.C. have either achieved or renewed their NAID certifications for physical destruction of hard drives.
Also, Cascade Asset Management of Indianapolis and of Madison, Wis.; and HiTech Assets of Oklahoma City, Okla. have renewed their NAID certifications for hard drive sanitization operations as well as physical destruction of hard drives.
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