Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Why Secure Document and Data Destruction Matters More Than Ever
October marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a national initiative focused on keeping businesses and individuals safe from data breaches and identity
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October marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a national initiative focused on keeping businesses and individuals safe from data breaches and identity
When businesses look for ways to dispose of old computers, servers, or hard drives, the word “free” can sound appealing.
Most organizations have some type of destruction process in place for confidential information. Whether you utilize an outside service or
DataShield provides physical destruction and shredding of hard drives, data tapes, cell phones, and other electronic media. Depending on your needs, DataShield offers high-speed
Whether you have several old data tapes in a box or are refreshing an entire data center, DataShield is your source for
It’s a new year which means it’s time purge those documents and get shredding. In a year, a business will
It’s no secret that giving and receiving gifts is one of the highlights of the holiday season. However, we all
A blog we previously wrote detailed the dangers that go along with employees bringing their work home. As it turns out,
The movie “Office Space” vividly illustrates the joy in destroying an electronic device. After dealing with a defective printer for too long, the employees take it outside and smash it to pieces. Yes, they were able to let out some built up rage, but they also avoided having the confidential information stored in that printer get into the wrong hands.
After a recent data breach by a Russian crime ring, no one is safe online. The crime ring accumulated the largest known collection of stolen Internet credentials. A security firm out of Milwaukee uncovered the hacking of 1.2 billion username and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses. The hackers got a hold of internet credentials from Fortune
Information security is all about accountability. Keeping track of secure data gives individuals, businesses, and the government a responsibility to protect. Hard Drive Scandal Recently the secure hard drive destruction process within the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was compromised. The tables turned on the IRS, an organization that closely watches the U.S. revenue system, when all eyes needed to be
We too often hear stories of a laptop or hard drive finding their way into the wrong hands. Once these confidential information-bearing devices get swiped from a non-secure area, trouble immediately starts boiling. Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), medical facilities are held responsible for information that passes through their offices on a daily basis. Non-medical related companies
Omaha’s American National Bank branch got “Happy” in celebration of Mayor Jean Stother’s newly initiated “Day of Happiness.” Even DataShield made our way into the celebration (1:57). Watch Personal Banker Buddy Hogan play the part of Pharrell Williams in this vibrantly contagious music video: DataShield Celebrating “Day of Happiness” [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSu6nP0fjHc&w=560&h=315]
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