Asset Disposal and Information Security Alliance

Founded in 2010, The Asset Disposal and Information Security Alliance (ADISA) is an accreditation body offering certification to companies who provide IT Asset Disposal services and to manufacturers and developers of software and hardware data sanitisation solutions.
The ADISA Asset Recovery Standard (for service providers) is an established industry standard with the audit team, based in Hertfordshire, having performed over 500 audits in 17 counties since inception. In 2019 this standard underwent a review with version 7.0 being released in January 2020. 
In 2019, ADISA launched the ADISA Research Centre (ARC); a technology research centre, based outside Cardiff in South Wales and headed up by Dr Andrew Blyth. The ARC delivers the product certification schemes ran by ADISA. The ADISA Product Claims and Product Assurance Schemes are different levels of product testing for data sanitization tools.  
·        The Product Claims Test (PCT) scientifically evaluates the claim behind the data sanitization capabilities of a software or hardware device to determine its validity.
·        The Product Assurance Test offers a higher level of assurance than the PCT; it requires a larger sample size to be forensically analysed and measures the vendors of the software or hardware device against a range of requirements. 
ADISA won the 2019 Computer Security Compliance Company of the year award and is a previous winner of the Training Provider of the Year (2015). The ADISA Standard is recognised as an industry standard of merit by the UK Defence Infosec Product Co-Operation Group (DIPCOG) and listed on the National Cyber Security Centre’s guidance for companies when disposing of IT assets.
ADISA maintains a you tube channel called ADISA Media Centre where they provide latest information from the group in various formats.