Policies and Procedures and Why They Matter
Most organizations have some type of destruction process in place for confidential information. Whether you utilize an outside service or
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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,
After nearly two years of pandemic life the concept of working from home or telecommuting is hardly new. In fact
The need to protect your identity and safeguard personal information has reached an all-time high. As technology improves and data
By Erica Byfield Atlanta – From WSBTV Discovery of Confidential Documents A tip from a Channel 2 Action News viewer has led to the discovery of hundreds of documents with people’s names, birth dates and Social Security numbers in a dumpster. Gregory Evans told Channel 2’s Erica Byfield he was walking his dog on Renaissance Parkway in midtown Atlanta on
There’s a great infographic at InformationIsBeautiful.net showing some of the largest data breaches in the world. This graph is interactive and has some great information! Credits Design & concept: David McCandless Code: Tom Evans Tech: VizSweet Balloon Race Research: Miriam Quick, Ella Hollowood, Christian Miles, Dan Hampson Sources: IdTheftCentre, DataBreaches.net, news reports Data: bit.ly/bigdataleaks
“… It’s really not about patient data security,” Larry Ponemon, founder of the Ponemon Institute, told InformationWeek Healthcare. “Things aren’t getting better – they’re getting worse.” Since the beginning of 2010, Ponemon Institute has seen an increase of over 36% in data security threats to healthcare organizations. “Almost every hospital [surveyed] suffered one data breach, and 45% suffered more than
From Indy Star News written by Tim Evans A Marion County jury Friday awarded a woman $1.44 million after finding Walgreens and a pharmacist violated her privacy when the pharmacist looked up and shared the woman’s prescription history. The lawsuit filed in Marion Superior Court spun out of a tangled relationship between the pharmacist, her husband and the man’s ex-girlfriend.
On July 23rd of this year, a bill prohibiting the exporting of electronic waste in order to avoid improper and dangerous disposal was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives. H.R. 2791, The Responsible Electronics Recycling Act of 2013 (RERA) is an amendment to The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) which already restricts the export of ‘restricted electronic waste’
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