Help keep your business from making headlines for all the wrong reasons with these data security tips. The headlines almost feel commonplace at this point: “Data Security Breach at Company X.” We see it happen all the time, but what’s really at stake? Valuable data, both personal and corporate. Value associated with the integrity and trustworthiness of a brand. And money, lots of money. In fact, according to the IMB-sponsored 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Study conducted by Ponemon…

Federal government initiative to reduce paper and gain efficiency thru electronic information governance. In March of 2017, the Trump administration released an executive order for reorganizing the Executive Branch. Subsequently, the White House released their recommendations in a report entitled “Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century.” While a litany of topics are covered in both releases, two of the most relevant items pertaining to Records and Information Management…

DataSavers research and experience ultimately led to implementation of an in-house, plant based shred operation versus a mobile shred truck operation. Below are some of the reasons DataSavers remains the best choice for secure destruction of materials: Triple Certification (NAID, ISO 9001:2015, NARA) Don’t take our word for it! DataSavers processes and facilities have undergone extensive scrutiny and meet and exceed the standards of the nation’s leading authorities. NAID…

Many workplaces today have contracted document shredding services so that paper and digital documents that are no longer needed are securely and professionally shredded on a regular basis. But some workplaces prefer a periodic one-time purge. A company may have less frequent need, or it may be in the midst of either a physical move or an office clean-up because document overflow has gotten out-of-hand. For a scheduled one-time purge, DataSavers will come to your workplace to remove all of the…

All businesses, regardless of size, require a way to safely destroy unnecessary or unneeded documentation in order to prevent data breeches or other security issues. Shredding your paperwork can be a very tedious task to do alone and there are many different things to consider before shredding or otherwise destroying documentation. Here are several important questions that should be asked before proceeding: • Is our organization being consistent with our document retention schedule? One…