Security – why shred?

According to business espionage experts, the fastest growing source of identity theft, fraud and corporate espionage is the simple lack of secured disposal of printed documents and other storage media such as CDs, diskettes, etc. In addition, your shredded documents ultimately end up in your trash where they can be reconstructed by "dumpster divers" and be used in an identity theft crime. These paid “dumpster divers” leave your company exposed to a security breach and theft of your organization’s most critical data which could result in costly corporate, state and federal fines.

WHAT TO SHRED-

In order to be compliant with the laws and protect yourself, stockholders, employees and clients/patients, you should destroy all confidential and outdated material.

• Any document, which contains confidential material (designs, proposals, plans, blueprints and drafts).
• Any document which could be used for the purpose of identity theft (social security numbers, customer lists, credit applications, tax returns, etc).
• Any document which could cause harm in the hands of criminals or competitors (cancelled checks, account information, price lists, business plans, credit card numbers)
• Any document which is mandated to be protected by laws such as HIPAA (healthcare), GLB (financial) or FACTA (general)
• Any non-paper item which could harm you or others in the hands of criminals (recalled products, hard drives, security uniforms, employee identification cards, product packaging, out of spec products, etc.)

Some examples of what we shred