Government disposal is an audit exercise as much as a logistics one. The question is rarely whether the hardware left the building — it is whether you can produce a record, per asset, showing what was destroyed, to which standard, and verified by whom.
Kinsoft provides secure e-waste removal and certified data destruction for NSW government agencies, councils and their suppliers across Sydney.
What government disposal demands that commercial disposal does not
The standard is specified, not chosen. Where an agency works to the Australian Government Information Security Manual, sanitisation is expected to follow ISM requirements rather than whichever method a supplier prefers. We apply the standard you nominate.
Every asset has to reconcile. Devices carry asset tags and sit on a register. The disposal record has to match that register item by item, or the reconciliation fails at audit regardless of how well the data was actually destroyed.
Chain of custody is part of the deliverable. Who collected it, when, where it went and who verified the erasure matter as much as the erasure itself.
Some material cannot be sanitised, only destroyed. Depending on classification, overwriting is not acceptable and physical destruction is required. That has to be established before collection, not after.
Documentation
A certificate of erasure records make, model, serial number, asset tag where present, standard applied, pass count, verification result and date, per device. That is the artefact an internal auditor or the Audit Office will ask for.
Secure data destruction
Drives are wiped to the standard you specify — Australian ISM, NIST 800-88 or DoD 5220.22-M among others. SSDs and NVMe media use firmware-level Secure Erase rather than overwrite methods designed for spinning disks. Full detail on our e-waste removal and data destruction page.
Arrange a collection
Call 02 9064 2663 or contact us online. We work with agencies, councils and their suppliers across Sydney.
Can you work to the Australian ISM rather than your default?
Yes. Tell us the standard your agency requires and we apply it, and the certificate records which standard was used for each device.
Can the disposal record reconcile to our asset register?
Yes, and it should. Provide the asset tags and the certificate records them per device so the reconciliation holds at audit.
Some of our material cannot be overwritten. Can you destroy it physically?
Yes, but tell us before collection. Classification determines whether sanitisation is acceptable or physical destruction is required, and that decision has to be made up front.