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The obligations, in plain English
Reference pages for operators who have just been handed a requirement. Answered in the first paragraph, sourced to the primary document, kept current, and written for the United States.
September 16, 2026 · United States
The path to 99%: what we measure, what we publish, and how far we have to go
Our serial identification model picks the right serial on 97.7% of the drive labels it can read. Here is what that number is a share of, how we measured it, and what it will take to reach 99%.
September 10, 2026 · United States
How do you prove which drive was destroyed?
The serial number gets recorded. It just doesn’t get recorded where the destruction happens — and a record made somewhere else, earlier, by someone who then walked the drive across a floor, is an assertion rather than evidence for one.
September 2, 2026 · United States
How to automate chain of custody in ITAD
Chain of custody is not a document you produce at the end. It is a claim about every device you touched, and automating it means capturing the evidence at the moment the work happens rather than reconstructing it after.
August 30, 2026 · United States
Verification and validation are not the same thing
Revision 2 made them two separate obligations, recorded separately. Verification is the check at the machine. Validation is the decision that accepts what the check leaves behind — and that is the gap an assessor finds first.
August 17, 2026 · United States
How long must you keep a certificate of destruction?
Three to seven years is the working answer. The real answer is set by your client's regulator, not by your client — and often not by anything they will tell you unprompted.
August 17, 2026 · United States
NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 — what changed, and what you have to do
Revision 1 was withdrawn on September 26, 2025. If your disposal policy, your contracts or your certificate template still cite it, they cite a withdrawn document. Here is what changed and what to update.
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