It’s easy enough that puppies and babies do it for fun – shredding paper is quite literally child’s play. (Not that an energetic toddler is any substitute for a professional shredding service!) Cardboard’s thicker, but with the use of a strong shredder, it too can be torn into tiny bits. Even plastic can be destroyed...Continue Reading

Eleven Years and Counting: Northeast Data Destruction Renews NAID Certification Complying with federal regulations and local laws isn’t optional, at least not if you want your business to stay operational. But complying with industry certification programs may be optional, which is why companies that have poor practices or lax security generally don’t bother. That’s why...Continue Reading

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 be doing. That’s especially important...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 requires businesses to safeguard certain...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 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