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10 Creative Uses for Shredded Paper

  If you are shredding your junk mail and any other documents with personal information on it, good for you! Shredding these documents is an important step in securing your personal identity. If you own a business, it is even more imperative you are shredding these types of documents to not only keep your business…
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Protecting Your Business from Data Breaches

If your business handles personally identifiable information, it is important to keep the information secure in order to protect your clients. This includes patient records, employment records, loan applications, tax forms, medical forms, credit card applications, and more.  Security breaches are a real and large threat to businesses of all sizes and across all industries….
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5 Documents You Should Be Shredding, But Probably Aren’t

  Most businesses these days are very aware of security threats and have policies in place to keep themselves protected. However, even with these policies in place, there are many seemingly-innocent documents that are often forgotten about that can leave your business open to security breaches. Here are 5 documents you should be shredding, but…
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What a Data Breach Costs Your Business

  If your business handles personally identifiable information, it is important to keep the information secure in order to protect your clients. This includes patient records, employment records, loan applications, tax forms, medical forms, credit card applications, and more.  Security breaches are a real and large threat to businesses off all sizes and across all…
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Is Using an Office Shredder Really Saving You Money?

Just about every business nowadays handles sensitive information. Which means you have to adhere to certain document destruction policies in order to protect the identity of your clients, employees, and business. When comparing mobile shredding services to in-house shredding simply purchasing an office shredder and leaving the destruction of confidential documents to an employee may…
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Why Your Employees are Your First Line of Defense Against a Data Breach

When you think data breach, you’re probably picturing some masked hackers in hoodies in a dimly lit room with nefarious intentions. And, hey, you may be right. But what if your first line of defense against a data breach isn’t the sophisticated cyber security software that you should still definitely be using, but your employees?

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How Secure is Secure Recycling?

Show of hands: how many of you rip up credit card offers when they come in the mail? If you didn’t raise your hand because you shred credit card offers, good for you! If you didn’t raise your hand because you just toss them straight into the recycling – you might want to rethink your…
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