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ADISA Certification Limited (formerly Asset Disposal and Information Security Alliance) is a certification body specialising in data protection and quality management and is the operator of two UK GDPR Certification Schemes. These are officially approved by the UK Information Commissioner’s office and the audit process is accredited by the
United Kingdom Accreditation Service The United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) is the sole national Accredited registrar, accreditation body recognised by the Government of the United Kingdom, British government to assess the competence of organisations that provide certific ...
. The two schemes ar
ADISA ICT Asset Recovery Standard 8.0
an
Legal Services Operational Privacy Certification Scheme
(LOCS:23) for the legal sector. The ADISA testing laboratory called the ADISA Research Centre is the leading test lab for data sanitisation and is currently the only lab verifying compliance to data sanitisation standards NIST 800-88 and IEEE 2883.


History

Founded in 2010, ADISA has developed several standards and certification schemes to ensure secure IT asset disposal and data sanitisation. In 2019, ADISA launched the ADISA Research Centre (ARC). ARC delivers product certification schemes for software and hardware data sanitisation tools. The ADISA Product Claims and Product Assurance Schemes are different levels of product testing for data sanitisation tools.   In July 2021, the ADISA ICT Asset Recovery Standard 8.0 was formally approved by the UK Information Commissioner's Office as a UK GDPR Certification Scheme. In 2024 ADISA released th
ADISA Academy
providing training resources for professionals managing risk during IT Asset Retirement and Recovery


See also

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Data remanence Data remanence is the residual representation of digital data that remains even after attempts have been made to remove or erase the data. This residue may result from data being left intact by a nominal file deletion operation, by reformatting of ...
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Electronic waste Electronic waste (or e-waste) describes discarded electrical or electronics, electronic devices. It is also commonly known as waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) or end-of-life (EOL) electronics. Used electronics which are destined ...
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Sanitization (classified information) Redaction or sanitization is the process of removing information sensitivity, sensitive information from a document so that it may be distributed to a broader audience. It is intended to allow the selective disclosure of information. Typically, t ...


References

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