The National Association for Information Destruction elects Iron
Mountain to help drive industry standards for shredding business
documents; Company becomes largest ever to complete certification
program for North American operations
BOSTON, Sep 28, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, today
announced that it has been elected to the National Association for
Information Destruction (NAID) Certification Review Board. Sal Napoli,
director of secure shredding for Iron Mountain, will join the board and
help encourage shredding vendors to receive NAID Certification and
adhere to its standards. Iron Mountain itself recently achieved NAID AAA
Certification for its secure shredding operations in North America.
"With Iron Mountain completing certification, NAID AAA Certification
moves closer to becoming the default criteria for determining which
shredding vendors are invited to compete for secure destruction
opportunities," said Robert Johnson, executive director of NAID. "We are
proud to have such a highly regarded service provider lend their
credibility to our program."
NAID offers its certification program on a voluntary basis to NAID
member companies providing information destruction services. Through the
program, NAID members may seek certification for mobile and/or
plant-based operations in paper destruction. Companies achieve and
maintain NAID AAA Certification through an on-going series of announced
and unannounced audits of operations at their secure shredding
facilities and in the field. Currently, there are more than 700 NAID AAA
Certified locations in North America, as well as a growing number around
the world.
"Joining the NAID Certification Review Board and achieving certification
are important milestones for us, and helps validate our longstanding
approach to reassure customers that their information is securely
destroyed," said Sal Napoli. "The standards set and enforced by NAID
ensure that every provider - irrespective of brand or size - meets one
standard for information destruction. As an industry leader in
information destruction services, we feel a responsibility to not only
support NAID's efforts to certify the universe of providers, but to have
a voice in what that certification standard means: security, operational
integrity, and peace of mind."
With this appointment, Napoli becomes the second member of Iron
Mountain's shredding team to actively serve on a NAID board, joining
Dave Carey, vice president of secure shredding in Canada, who serves on
the board for NAID-Canada.
About NAID
The National Association for Information Destruction (NAID) is the
16-year-old non-profit trade association of the security destruction
industry. NAID's mission is to promote the highest standards of security
and ethics among its members and to promote the use of qualified service
providers as the most secure and cost-effective method of meeting data
destruction requirements. Currently, NAID maintains its international
presence through regional chapters in the United States, Canada, Europe
and Australasia. NAID currently represents over 1,400 member locations
around the world.
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management
services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and
inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The
company's solutions enable customers to protect and better use their
information--regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage--so
they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance
and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of
information assets, including business records, electronic files,
medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com
or follow the company on Twitter @IronMountainInc for more information.
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