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Gubbels & Neuhaus Receive CSDS Accreditation

This March, Brian Gubbels and Matthew Neuhaus of Datashield received their Certified Secure Destruction Specialist accreditation from the National Association for Information Destruction. Gubbels and Neuhaus are the first from the Omaha area to receive the accreditation and did so with 26 other individuals from around the country. CSDS Accreditation Launched in 2010 “to promote and acknowledge an individual’s competency

Bringing Your Work Home? Check Your Security Policy

A recent study by Czech security software firm Safetica has found that a third of employees admitted to using social media on their company computer during work hours, with another 12 percent admitted to taking home company files or emailing them to a private email, Workplace Savings and Benefits notes. Obviously, not all of these problems can be completely eliminated—short

Compliance and the Cloud

Whether we like it or not, the tech world is changing: ZDnet estimates that the amount of data in the cloud will reach 1.2 zettabytes — that’s 1.2 trillion gigabytes. If written on DVDs, that’s enough to reach from the earth to the moon and back, by the end of the year. This is good in some ways: storing data

Why Shred?

We all know we should destroy confidential documents but knowing why may be less apparent.  If you’re reading this blog you already know that paper shredding has value and can protect you, but let’s go through the reasons why. Why shredding sensitive documents is critical: It’s the law. If you own a business, you handle personal information.  In this case shredding

This Week in Identity Theft

At DataShield, we spend a lot of time talking about the dangers of identity theft — but even so, it’s often easy to forget that people have their identities stolen on a regular basis. Identity Theft Cases This Week As a reminder of the real-life dangers of identity theft, here are a few notable cases from around the country from

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