The destruction is for your security. The certificate is for everyone who has to take your word for it — auditors, clients, regulators, and lawyers.
Every EndByte engagement ends in documentation, because 'we destroyed it, trust us' isn't a compliance posture. Each device gets its own certificate recording the serial number, the method used (wipe standard or destruction type), the date, and the verification result.
For batch jobs, certificates roll up into a single audit report: a reconciled list showing every device received, what happened to it, and its final disposition — wiped and returned, retained under the free program, destroyed, or recycled. One document your auditor can check against your asset records.
Certificates are delivered with the job and formatted for the people who actually read them — clean, specific, and free of marketing.
Model and serial number, matched to the intake audit.
Wipe standard used (NIST 800-88, DoD 5220.22-M, HMG IS5 and others) or destruction method.
Pass confirmation from the full-surface read-back, or the destruction record.
When it happened and on which bench or site.
Returned, retained, destroyed, or recycled — stated per device.
An audit report tying every certificate back to the original inventory.
Data recorded automatically as each drive is processed.
Certificates and the batch report assembled and reconciled.
Documentation delivered with the completed job.
That's the only kind we make. Every job closes with certificates in hand.