Certified Data Deletion

Retired hardware can become a gateway to your confidential data

Simple deletion isn’t enough—data can still be extracted by anyone with basic tools. Only a certified erasure process ensures complete, irreversible removal and provides audit‑ready proof of destruction

When devices are retired, replaced or repurposed, sensitive data often remains fully recoverable. This creates serious GDPR, reputational and financial risks.

Symsyst provides certified data deletion services that ensure business and personal data is permanently removed and cannot be recovered.

Permanent Data Removal

Data Sanitisation Services

Clear — Secure Erasure for Device Reuse

Clear overwrites only the free space on a device, making deleted data unrecoverable while keeping existing files intact, ensuring the hardware remains fully usable for redeployment or internal reuse.

Key benefits

• Recognised standards-based data overwriting

• Keeps devices operational and reusable

• Ideal for internal reuse, employee off-boarding and system refresh cycles

Purge — Highest Level of Data Destruction

Purge applies advanced secure‑erase commands to make all data permanently unrecoverable, even using advanced forensic techniques, delivering deep sanitisation for devices being disposed of, resold or recycled.

Key benefits

• Maximum assurance for sensitive data

• Suitable for resale, recycling or disposal

• Strong protection against data leakage after asset exit

Who this Service is for

• Organisations retiring or redeploying IT equipment

• Businesses selling, donating or recycling devices

• IT and compliance teams enforcing secure data disposal

What Your business Gains

• Permanent, risk‑free data removal

• Certified proof of deletion for GDPR and audit compliance

• Confidence to reuse devices safely or retire them securely

• A professional, consistent process delivered with certified tools

Why Certified Data Deletion Matters

Reduce Data Breach Risk

Simple deletion or formatting is not enough. Certified erasure eliminates residual data and protects sensitive information.

Support Compliance and Governance

Documented proof of destruction helps meet legal, regulatory and corporate data protection requirements, including demonstrating compliance with GDPR.

Enable Safe Reuse and Disposal

Certified erasure ensures devices can be reused, transferred or donated without exposing residual data, supporting secure and responsible hardware lifecycle management.

Secure your data and prove compliant deletion