All businesses have sensitive data to protect, but paper shredding is even more critically important for healthcare entities than virtually any other industry. For healthcare offices, protecting information from exposure is more than a matter of professional conduct. HIPAA compliance makes it a matter of law. And recent trends indicate that healthcare data is under...Continue Reading

Creating and maintaining your record retention policy is one of those tasks that takes a little time upfront but can save a lot of time and confusion later on. It’s essentially a way of making sure everyone in your organization is on the same page about how to handle all your sensitive information, both paper...Continue Reading

Your business might need product destruction services for any number of reasons. Maybe it’s old or defective inventory that you can’t sell. Obsolete merchandise or models that are proprietary to your business. Products that were damaged in transit to you. Old uniforms with company branding from former employees. Or maybe staff finally cleared out a...Continue Reading

Every responsible business owner knows by now that data security is an urgent and ongoing concern. No matter your industry or the size of your business, you’re vulnerable to data theft or an accidental data exposure at any time. Creating a strict data security policy helps you and your team protect sensitive data in-house, but...Continue Reading

Did you know that Elon Musk has such a sensitive sense of smell that Tesla job candidates are allegedly told not to wear fragrances to their interviews? Presumably, if you do get the gig and are going to be working in Elon’s proximity, you put your favorite cologne or perfume away for good. Hey—his business,...Continue Reading

Running a successful business is all about maximizing your resources. Every dollar you spend on one service is a dollar that you can’t spend somewhere else, so it’s essential that you wring every bit of value out of every service you pay for. Your shredding service contract is no exception. If you’re using your shredding...Continue Reading

You’re keeping a lot of plates spinning as a business owner or busy professional. There’s never enough time to get everything done. So wouldn’t it make your life just a little bit easier if you could skip using a document shredding service, and just recycle or even throw away all your documents instead? Hackers aren’t...Continue Reading

An expired credit card isn’t just a useless piece of plastic. It might be rejected when you try to pay for lunch, but it still contains sensitive data—which means that your business’s expired card could have value for data thieves. Card destruction is a necessary security measure to prevent a devastating case of credit card...Continue Reading

Hey, nobody’s perfect—not that it’s much comfort when your business is stuck with off-spec items. Maybe something went wrong in the manufacturing process for a new proprietary product and the prototype doesn’t meet your standards, or you’ve received shipments of a product that has since been recalled or was damaged in transit. Whatever the reason,...Continue Reading

Hard drives and microwaves simply shouldn’t mix—though that hasn’t stopped some daredevils from attempting to cook their drives.  Microwaving is just one of the DIY ways people have tried dealing with their obsolete hard drives. It’s not a good way to erase data, obviously; destroying a hard drive never needs to end with a call...Continue Reading