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Can Magnets Destroy Hard Drives? Secure Data Destruction in 2024

Nothing lasts forever, but it would be nice if hard drives lasted a little longer. The hard drives that power your business’s electronics and store all your data generally have a life expectancy of around five years, depending on the model; sometimes they start to fail even earlier. Considering how...
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Maintaining Data Security While Your Team is Working Remotely

The spread of COVID-19 happened so quickly that businesses of all sizes and across all industries had to scramble to respond. Some non-essential businesses had just hours to prepare their employees before everyone headed home to work remotely for the foreseeable future. Setting up the technology to support temporary remote...
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Why Every Company Needs a Record Retention Policy

How long will your company keep a former employee’s W2? What about 1099s? Do bank deposit slips get saved for a few years, or saved forever? How should old receipts and expense reports be handled? These are just some of the questions that can be answered by a company’s record...
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Are You Working With a Confidential Data Destruction Company?

If you need to install new lights in your workplace, do you call on a local electrician for expert help? When you need office supplies, do you have a vendor you can call? Does an accounting firm help you file your taxes? Do you trust other companies to handle your...
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Shredding End-of-Year Best Practices

Another year is nearly over. No matter what victories and challenges the year held for your business, one thing is certain: You accumulated a ton of stuff. How many sheets of paper were added to your files this year? How many devices broke down and had to be replaced? If...
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Disposing of Badges and Payment Cards the Right Way

Issuing ID cards and access badges can be a bit of a pain. New employees need them created, forgetful employees need them replaced, and departing employees need to be made to give theirs back. There’s a lot of administrative work around creating and maintaining these cards. But it’s all worthwhile,...
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Case Study: How We Handle Hard Drive Shredding, Step by Step

So you’ve got old data-storage devices gathering dust in corners of the office that everyone avoids. Sooner or later, you’re going to have to deal with them. But the process of figuring out how to dispose of them properly, and actually making that happen, seems like a big hassle. We...
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Shredding the Junk Mail: What Some Companies Forget About Data Destruction

Running a successful business is a little like being a circus performer at times. Specifically, a plate spinner: someone who balances and spins a dozen plates, then rushes across the stage making sure that each one stays in motion. You have so many critical and time-sensitive matters to attend to...
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A Banner Year: 2019’s Biggest Data Breaches (So Far)

It’s not a distinction worthy of celebration, but this year is on track to be the worst on record for data breaches. There were 54% more data breaches reported by midyear 2019 than were reported by midyear 2018, according to research done by Risk Based Security. Thousands of breaches have...
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Our Strangest Shredding Service Request

If it can be shredded, we can shred it. That’s the philosophy that drives our approach to all client requests for a shredding service. Paper? Of course. Hard drives? No problem. Body armor? Actually, that is a problem – one that Northeast Data Destruction encountered not too long ago. Let’s...
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