Is your business too small to hire a payroll service, or a cleaning service, or someone to handle HR? If not, it’s not too small to hire a shredding service. Outsourcing some smaller tasks to experts frees up employees to devote their time to the work you want them to...Continue Reading

Here’s an unpleasant reality that might keep you up at night: one absent-minded employee has the power to do permanent damage to your data and your business’s reputation. Understanding data protection regulations is the first step to protecting your clients and your reputation. Here in Massachusetts, regulation 201 CMR 17.00...Continue Reading

Choosing a new pizza place or dry cleaner is as simple as spending a few minutes on Yelp or asking a coworker for a recommendation. Choosing a data destruction company for your business’s needs isn’t nearly as simple. The stakes are incredibly high – if the company you pick doesn’t...Continue Reading

Equifax Data Breach In 2017, an employee at Equifax, the credit reporting agency, failed to convey a message to the company’s cybersecurity team. The Equifax website had security vulnerabilities and needed to be updated with a patch. But one person failed to act, and hackers quickly found their way into...Continue Reading

If you knew for certain that thieves were roaming your neighborhood looking for unprotected houses, would you cross your fingers and hope that your home would be missed? Or would you take immediate steps to protect yourself and your family? Most of us would jump into action, keeping in mind...Continue Reading

Customer information, financial documents, HR forms, proprietary files, medical records – if you wouldn’t want a data thief or the competition to see them, they’ve got to be shredded. Here in Massachusetts, state law actually requires that companies protect the personal information of state residents, so shredding certain documents might...Continue Reading

Hey, no one’s perfect. That’s a fact that anyone who works within the manufacturing space knows all too well. Human error, a drawback, and production failures happen all the time, which means that importers sometimes end up with huge shipments of products they can’t sell and can’t simply throw away. ...Continue Reading

Running afoul of HIPAA can be a hugely expensive mistake. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was created in large part to protect patients’ rights to privacy, and violating HIPAA has ramifications beyond those of the typical workplace mistake. Committing a violation because of willful neglect carries a minimum...Continue Reading

As technology advances, the world shrinks. The Internet makes it incredibly easy for American companies to connect with European companies and customers. That can be great for business, but complying with regulations on both sides of the pond can get complicated – and a new piece of legislation out of...Continue Reading

When your company’s policies around PTO and travel reimbursements are solid, they can remain unchanged for years. Data security policies, on the other hand, require frequent updating. As technology advances, so do the strategies and scams used by data thieves. Creating and enforcing clear, comprehensive policies about security protects your...Continue Reading