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What Makes Hard Drive Destruction Different From Other Disposal Methods?

by Samantha Masters | Updated March 17, 2021 | Hard Drives | 5 min read

Data protection is one of the most important thing for individuals and businesses. Over the years, data is collected on hard drives and simply tossing it in the trash does not destroy anything. Throwing the drive away just eliminates the data from your presence. To ensure the data is completely...

How to Handle Your Shredding From Home

by Ryan McHugh | Updated March 17, 2021 | Mobile Shredding | 6 min read

Although stay-at-home orders and self-quarantining might stop you from leaving your house, the need to shred isn’t going to stop, and no matter if it’s sensitive information you’re just receiving in the mail or instead it’s a file you’ve had to retain for years, it’s important you’re still able to...

Ship ‘N’ Shred: The Solution for Shredding While Quarantined

by Samantha Masters | Updated March 17, 2021 | Paper Shredding | 5 min read

During the current situation, there is a desire and urgency to stay home and stay safe. However, there is still an importance for data protection. We are in a unique situation where individuals are confined to their homes to remain safe during uncertainty. While this is critical to remaining safe, individuals...

ALERT: Deleting Hard Drive Data Doesn’t Mean It’s Gone

by Kylie Daugharty | Updated August 28, 2020 | Hard Drives | 4 min read

You have three main options when it comes to deleting hard drive data. Hard drive destruction, formatting, and degaussing are can all be useful forms of deleting old data. However, they vary in effectiveness, cost, and security. Learn more about your options for hard drive disposal, and the differences...

The Top 4 Reasons to Destroy Old Hard Drives

by Kylie Daugharty | Updated March 17, 2021 | Hard Drives | 3 min read

Thieves and hackers target electronic devices because many are not wiped thoroughly and simply thrown away. Destroy old hard drives with a company that specializes in hard drive destruction to protect your data from being retrieved and used maliciously. Hard drives are high-capacity storage devices inside your electronics. They exist not only...

How to Manage Medical Record Retention and Destruction

by Ryan McHugh | Updated March 17, 2021 | Medical Records | 6 min read

With a wide range of different medical record retention and destruction requirements on both a federal and state level, it’s critical to follow best practices to ensure you’re compliant with HIPAA and state standards. Not only is it essential in terms of protecting yourself from legal consequences, but also...

How to Implement a Medical Record Retention and Destruction Process

by Kylie Daugharty | Updated May 8, 2020 | Medical Records | 4 min read

Healthcare organizations are required to store medical records for a specified retention period. Implementing a record retention and destruction process is vital for legal compliance and provides many other benefits to health organizations. Organizing records saves space in the workplace, improves continuity of care for patients, and ensures easy...

Top Tips for Data Breach Prevention & Response

by Samantha Masters | Updated March 17, 2021 | Data Breach | 4 min read

Cyber-criminals are learning new techniques and tricks to steal information from people. It can be difficult to predict what they will do during an attack, but there are still things you can do for data breach prevention. It’s important to protect against invasion and try to minimize the damage....

Shredding Services That Come To You: Mobile Shredding or Ship ‘N’ Shred

by Samantha Masters | December 5, 2019 | Mobile Shredding | 4 min read

When you are looking for an at-home shredding service, there are a few options—mobile shredding and Ship ‘N’ Shred. Mobile shredding and Ship ‘N’ Shred services make shredding documents more convenient.  There may be factors which could indicate the best service option for your needs. It could be the...

What Do Scanning Services Do with Old Paper Copies?

by Andrew Janson | Updated May 1, 2020 | Paper Shredding | 3 min read

If you’re interested in document scanning, you’re probably also interested in security and making sure your records are handled properly. However, records scanning requires someone else to handle your records. This is why you’ve probably wondered: what happens to my records after they’ve been scanned? The answer is simple...