You’d never leave your business’s doors open overnight. Even if it’s highly unlikely that someone with bad intentions would show up and try to get in, locking all entry points is a core part of a comprehensive security strategy. Media shredding is just as critical. Shredding hard drives and other media items at the end...Continue Reading

Our devices are constantly getting more and more sophisticated. Maybe that’s why people are constantly looking for new data destruction methods or new hacks they can use for hard drive destruction: we’re just used to there always being something new. Social media has also made it both easy and entertaining to share ideas about DIY...Continue Reading

Has your business experienced a data breach yet? If not, it’s probably only a matter of time. Someone in the office might download an attachment from a phishing email and accidentally spread malware. There could be a breach in some cloud-based software program your company uses, or your data could be exposed in a vendor’s...Continue Reading

In a time when just about everything seems to be stored in the cloud, physical media can seem downright quaint. Things like CDs and tapes used to be part of how everyone did business. Today, many businesses probably don’t even own any equipment that could play an audio tape. But that doesn’t mean your old...Continue Reading

One of the biggest challenges that businesses have around data security is that things always seem to be shifting. Every time you bring a new kind of IT system or technology into your organization, you have to figure out how to use it and figure out how to protect any data that it is linked...Continue Reading

Can your business function without computers? If it can, you’re running a unique operation. Computers are entirely essential for most organizations. Your business might own more computers than it has employees. Most of those machines will probably reach the end of their lifespans within the next few years. And every one of them probably contains...Continue Reading

Proper Data Destruction for Media Other Than Hard Drives The data destruction industry has done a great job at getting out an important message: Hard drives are treasure troves for data thieves, and donating or throwing away an obsolete computer could expose all sorts of sensitive information stored on its hard drive. You would probably...Continue Reading

Cleaning out the old makes way for the new—but for too many businesses, bringing in new equipment means exposing confidential data, in part because many people don’t know how to wipe a hard drive properly. Why Hard Drives Must be Disposed of Properly Like all technology, hard drives don’t last forever. You’ll probably have to...Continue Reading

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 many computers and external drives...Continue Reading