We all enjoy invisible benefits from consumer protection laws every day. Consumer protection laws have been created to address a range of problems, from annoying telemarketing calls to predatory mortgage lenders and identify theft. For business owners, consumer protection laws can be a double-edged sword. Sure, they may protect your...Continue Reading

Digital documents have made a lot of business processes easier than they used to be back when everything was done on paper. Cloud-based systems have allowed businesses to access data and tools from anywhere, at any time. Tech advancements have changed the way we create and store information—but they shouldn’t...Continue Reading

Your business might reap multiple benefits from organizing a shredding event. First, it’s a good opportunity to clean out your facilities and offices so you can get rid of obsolete materials, hard drives and files in a secure way, creating more storage space. Businesses also host shredding events that are...Continue Reading

Shredding important documents is practically muscle memory for business owners and employees at this point. Unless someone is careless or uneducated about data security risks, everyone in your organization is probably good about putting sensitive documents into locked containers for secure shredding rather than in open recycling bins or trash...Continue Reading

Imagine the worst-case scenario happens and your business experiences a serious data breach. Let’s say after upgrading your company’s computers, you failed to destroy some obsolete hard drives properly, and a malicious outsider targeted those drives to use the data to steal sensitive information. Not only would your own financial...Continue Reading

How many cell phones have you gone through in your lifetime? Most of us have probably lost track at this point. You might have one or two old phones gathering dust in a drawer at home or in your office right now. Every upgrade brings up the question – what’s...Continue Reading

We’ve talked before about healthcare data breaches and why timely document shredding is so essential for protecting patient data. Healthcare entities risk HIPAA violations and could expose patients’ private medical and/or financial information to outsiders with delayed data destruction. It’s easy to see how a data breach could affect patient...Continue Reading

If your business is subject to the FTC Safeguards Rule, but you haven’t yet become compliant under the newest requirements, there’s still time—but not much. The compliance deadline for some of the Rule’s provisions is currently set to be June 9, 2023, after which steep penalties may be issued for...Continue Reading

Keeping your identity and data secure in 2023 is like playing a never-ending game of Whack-a-mole. You can’t open an email or answer a call from an unknown contact without the possibility that it’s a phishing scam. And identity thieves never stop evolving. They’re going to keep coming up with...Continue Reading

Considering all the other challenges your business has to deal with on a daily basis, being penalized for noncompliance with data destruction regulations is the absolute last thing you need. Nor do you want to spend time scrambling for data disposal records if you’re ever audited by a government agency...Continue Reading