SOC 2/3 Compliance: Destruction Your Auditor Can Verify
If your company handles protected personal information, your auditor will ask how it dies. Here's our answer.
Most businesses collect Protected Personal Information (PPI) — on paper, on retired hard drives, on backup media. SOC 2 and SOC 3 examinations look at how that information is secured through its whole life, including the very last step: destruction. That last step is where we come in.
Security: Locked From Discard to Destruction
We place locked containers in your office so discarded documents and drives are never loose. Between your wastebasket and the shredder, the material is only ever handled by screened, trained Future Shredding personnel — nobody else has a key.
Privacy: The Shortest Chain of Custody
Off-site destruction adds a truck ride, a warehouse, and a waiting period between information leaving your control and actually being destroyed. Our certified on-site process removes all three: material goes from your locked container into the shredder at your location, witnessed, in minutes. Auditors like short chains of custody; this is the shortest one.
Documentation: What You Can Hand the Auditor
- A Certificate of Destruction after every service.
- A tailored service agreement defining schedule, scope, and handling.
- SOC 2/3 documentation on request.
- Destruction consistent with HIPAA, FACTA, and applicable local and federal privacy law — see also our Terms of Service.
After destruction, 100% of shredded paper is recycled — compliance and sustainability aren't competing goals here.
Facing an Audit?
Call (562) 426-0557 and tell us what your auditor needs — we'll set up the service and the paper trail.