If you don’t work in IT, take computers apart for fun, or even care about what happens inside your laptop, you may not realize that not all hard drives are created equal. Yes, they all store data — but they don’t all do it in the same way. Many computers...Continue Reading

Could your business survive an attack by a data thief? Financial documents, employees’ Social Security numbers and bank account information, medical records, sensitive client files, proprietary designs — the results can be catastrophic if cybercriminals get their hands on your company’s data. When your company is done using anything that...Continue Reading

Data: every business has it, no matter how small or low-tech. Medical offices keep patient files, retailers hold onto records that include customers’ financial information — even dog walkers have sensitive files. Employers of all kinds keep records of employee tax forms and Social Security numbers, the kind of data...Continue Reading

Client data. Employee tax forms. Medical records. HR disciplinary files. Canceled checks. Every company — no matter how small, and no matter the industry — keeps sensitive records. Unless your company still uses typewriters and mimeograph machines, those records are probably stored on hard drives in your electronics. When it’s...Continue Reading

Every office has (electronic) skeletons in its closets: dusty boxes full of answering machines and fax machines, massive desktop computers that were shuffled into the storage room to make space for new laptops and promptly forgotten. Maybe your office has multiple closets stuffed with ghosts of technology past, like broken...Continue Reading

There are many companies offering confidential shredding services. These national shredding companies, ranging from a “man in a truck” mobile shredding service to the behemoths of the industry, have a main focus being paper shredding. But, what if you have items such as: hard drives, CD’s, tapes, off-spec clothing, credit...Continue Reading

Recently, we have witnessed data breaches becoming a notable risk for organizations of all sizes as hackers latch on to and target intellectual property and customers’ personally identifiable information within digital spaces. As hackers find new and back-end ways to access private property on various channels, there is a need...Continue Reading

At Northeast Data Destruction, we are always on the lookout for informative news pertaining to data security and the data destruction industry. At Northeast Data Destruction, we provide secure confidential shredding of all your sensitive documents, files, tapes, media, hard drives and off spec products. Our company is NAID “AAA”...Continue Reading

For anyone who is following data security, Verizon’s 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report serves as a comprehensive study into the risk human vulnerabilities and errors pose to companies’ data and security. In an interview with Bryan Sartin, managing director of the Verizon RISK Team and co-author of the Data Breach...Continue Reading

As society’s reliance on technology reaches new heights, keeping your business’s cyber security up to date is vital. Technology has become an all-encompassing part of our daily life; by living in reality, we are inadvertently immersing ourselves in the digital world. Sometimes, parts of ourselves that we do not want...Continue Reading