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The Certificate Test is episode 5 of The Crunch, CyberCrunch's series of 30-second animated ITAD explainers. Pull your last Certificate of Destruction. Serial numbers per drive? Method? Verification? 'One lot of assorted drives' is a receipt, not evidence. 30 seconds. CyberCrunch is an R2v3, NAID AAA, RIOS, and PA DEP certified IT asset disposition and data destruction provider headquartered in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, serving all 50 states.
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A defensible certificate of destruction lists every device by make, model, and serial number, names the sanitization or destruction method against NIST 800-88, records verification, and identifies the operator and date. That's what turns a vendor's claim into audit evidence.
An aggregate letter — 'one lot of assorted drives, recycled responsibly' — is common in the recycling industry and nearly worthless as compliance evidence. With no serial numbers, it can't be reconciled against your asset inventory, and reconciliation is exactly what assessors and auditors sample.
The self-test takes ten minutes: pick ten retired serial numbers at random from your inventory and trace each one to a certificate line. If any of the ten breaks, your evidence chain has a gap — better you find it than your assessor.
CYBERCRUNCH · NAID AAA · R2v3 · RIOS · PA DEP
Would your certificates survive the 10-serial test?
Serialized, method-specific, reconciled certificates are standard on every CyberCrunch engagement.
