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Critical Technology Services
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INDUSTRY

Financial services.

GLBA, SEC, FINRA. Serialized destruction. Audit posture.

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THE PROBLEM

Examiners want proof, not assurances.

Financial firms answer to GLBA, SEC, and FINRA, and to examiners who want evidence. CTS retires branch hardware, trading-floor systems, and data-center gear with serialized destruction and an audit-grade trail, so when someone asks where a drive went, the answer is a certificate, not a guess.

WHAT WE HANDLE

Built for regulated finance.

GLBA / SEC / FINRA posture

Disposition documented to the standard examiners expect, with retained records you can produce on request.

Serialized data destruction

Every drive wiped to NIST 800-88 or shredded, a certificate per serial number, no gaps in the chain of custody.

Branch & trading-floor refresh

Coordinated rollouts and retirements across branches and floors, sequenced to avoid downtime.

Audit-grade reporting

A single trail covering custody, destruction, and recovered value, ready for internal audit or a regulator.

Read our comprehensive explainer on GLBA data destruction requirements and how we issue an audit-ready certificate of destruction per serial number.

FAQ

Financial services ITAD questions we get a lot.

01

How does CTS meet GLBA, SEC, and FINRA expectations for disposal?

Disposition is documented to the standard examiners expect, with retained records you can produce on request. Every drive is wiped to NIST 800-88 or shredded, each with a certificate of destruction per serial number, so when someone asks where a drive went the answer is evidence, not assurance.
02

Do you handle media that touched cardholder data under PCI-DSS?

Yes. Media that touched cardholder data is destroyed to a defensible standard, sanitized to NIST 800-88 or physically shredded to under 2mm, with a per-serial certificate documenting it for a PCI assessor.
03

Do you provide a certificate of destruction per serial number?

Yes. Each drive we wipe or shred gets its own certificate tied to the serial number, so your audit trail maps to individual assets rather than a single bulk statement, with no gaps in the chain of custody.
04

Can you coordinate branch and trading-floor refreshes without downtime?

Yes. We sequence rollouts and retirements across branches, trading floors, and data-center gear, with national coverage and multi-site pickups under a single contract and chain of custody.
05

Is CTS R2v3 certified?

Yes. CTS is an R2v3-certified IT asset disposition operator and also holds ISO 14001, 9001, and 45001, with data destruction to NIST 800-88, DoD 5220.22-M, and IEEE 2883.
06

Can we recover value from retired financial hardware?

Yes. Drives that pass verification can be wiped to NIST 800-88 and the equipment resold or redeployed, with any residual value returned to you, all captured in the same audit-grade trail.
READY TO START?

Make disposition examiner-ready.