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To Protect Confidential Information, NAID Certified Matters

Savvy business leaders know to be skeptical when a service provider’s price seems too good to be true. Hiring the shredding service with the lowest rate might save you a few dollars today. It also might mean that you’re handing over boxes of your business’s confidential information to someone who...
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How Sensitive Document Shredding Should Be Handled by Municipalities

All organizations should be diligent about data security and document shredding. Failing to protect its own sensitive data and its customers’ sensitive data could have severe financial repercussions for a private business, and could even force its closure. But municipalities must be diligent about all elements of data security, from...
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How to Make the Most of Your Shredding Service Contract

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....
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How to Dispose of (and Not Dispose of) Old Computers Securely

Can your business function without computers? If it can, you’re running a unique operation. Computers are entirely essential for most organizations. Your business might own more computers than it has employees. Most of those machines will probably reach the end of their lifespans within the next few years. And every...
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Proper Data Destruction for Media Other Than Hard Drives

Proper Data Destruction for Media Other Than Hard Drives The data destruction industry has done a great job at getting out an important message: Hard drives are treasure troves for data thieves, and donating or throwing away an obsolete computer could expose all sorts of sensitive information stored on its...
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Do I Really Need to Use a Document Shredding Service?

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...
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Does Expired Card Destruction Really Matter?

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...
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Shredding Services: The Solution to Your Off-Spec Item Disposal

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...
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Drilling Holes in Hard Drives, and Other Ineffective Destruction Methods

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...
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Shredding Events: Onsite Shredding or Offsite Shredding?

Shredding is the only truly effective way to dispose of just about anything that contains sensitive data. And everyone around you probably knows that—but life is busy, and proper data destruction methods aren’t top of mind for most people. So files that need to be shredded stack up in cardboard...
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