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3 Ways Delayed Data Destruction Can Impact Patient Health

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...
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New FTC Safeguards Rule Deadline Approaches: Are You Ready?

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...
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How to Prevent Identity Theft: Current Trends to Watch For

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...
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Why & How Businesses Maintain Data Destruction Compliance

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...
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Did You Know You Might Need a Shredding Service for These?

There are a lot of reasons why even small businesses elect to work with shredding services instead of doing shredding in-house. It’s certainly more convenient to have a service come and take away locked bins of your shreddable stuff, compared to maintaining your own shredder and having employees feed obsolete...
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Best Practices: Healthcare Office Off-Site Paper Shredding

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...
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Data Compliance Combines Record Retention & Data Destruction

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...
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IT Asset Disposition (ITAD): Beyond Hard Drive Destruction

One of the biggest challenges that businesses have around data security is that things always seem to be shifting. Every time you bring a new kind of IT system or technology into your organization, you have to figure out how to use it and figure out how to protect any...
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What Are the Drivers in Confidential Data Destruction Pricing?

As everything gets more expensive, we’re all looking for ways to cut costs. So if you’re looking at your current confidential data destruction pricing and wondering whether your business should save money by switching to the cheapest shredding service in your area, that’s understandable. If you asked me, I would...
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Typical Product Destruction Priorities & What They Should Be

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...
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