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 value security or puts inexperienced...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 the old proverb that it’s...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 actually be a legal necessity....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. Imports Gone Wrong We’re often...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 $10,000 fine for the offending...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 employees, your customers and your...Continue Reading
Your dentist can’t perform a root canal remotely, and your handyman probably doesn’t offer telecommuting service. But, if you work in an industry that doesn’t require everyone to be on site all day, your organization probably has employees who work remote, at least occasionally. And if it doesn’t, it probably will soon. A Gallup poll...Continue Reading
The start of a new calendar year presents a prime opportunity to refresh your employees about company policies. And while it’s useful to give them updates about the dress code and how to log PTO, training employees to safeguard company data is a critical task. With the global average cost of a data breach at...Continue Reading
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 use a type of drive...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 holds data, it’s essential that...Continue Reading
