That's why, as a business owner, it's your responsibility to make sure that you safeguard that information -- not just your customers', but your employees' as well. As paperwork becomes outdated, whether that means it's actually no longer accurate or just that it's been transferred into a digital format, it's your responsibility to make sure the papers get destroyed.
The thing about identity thieves is that they understand how much money they can make for a relatively little amount of effort. If you could get access to several thousand dollars free and clear, would you be willing to go dumpster diving and spend an afternoon piecing together strips of paper? Of course you would. Shredding paper in a little office-sized paper shredder and putting it in the garbage is the equivalent of locking your car door when you walk away -- it keeps honest people honest, but a thief will take those extra few steps and walk away with the cash.
At the next level up, you could purchase a cross-cutting shredder. That multiplies the effort it takes to recreate a shredded document -- but you're still just leaving it out there in the garbage for anyone to find. The better answer is to hire a paper shredding service. A reputable paper shredding company will take your paperwork, shred it without ever looking at it, take the garbage far away from your place of business, and make sure it reaches the landfill without anyone poking around in it.
That's taking care of your customers -- that's taking responsibility. Contact Paper Recycling and Shredding Specialists and protect your business today.
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( 0 / 0 )Identity theft and fraud are staples of our time; but counter-intuitively, as more and more information goes digital, it's the paper records -- not the digital ones -- that criminals are seeking out. That's because, precisely because we watch so carefully for digital information, most people instinctively discount the value of paper records. The result being that people's personal information is treated exactly like any other form of trash: put in the circular file and ignored.
That's bad customer service. After all, your customers give you this information with the implicit expectation that, along with their movie rental agreement or contract to receive cleaning services, they're NOT also buying several months' worth of pain and suffering while they struggle with the police and credit rating agencies to try to undo the damage caused by a stolen identity.
That's why shredding papers isn't just an ethical obligation, it's actually an essential part of good customer service. And you should ask yourself what you would expect a professional company to do to protect YOUR vital data -- and then do at least that much for every single one of your customers.
For most people, that means more than just using a strip-shredder that costs $25 at Staples. -- would you feel safe if that's all that stood between your bank account and a maleficent nogoodnick? Most modern Americans assume that any major corporation is going to have a cross-cut shredder at the absolute minimum. Many further expect that the scraps of those documents are going to be taken to a landfill before they're left around where anyone can see them.
That's why small businesses who can't afford that kind of care are well-advised to look into paper shredding services. These folks will, for a nominal charge, not just expertly (and quickly!) shred your old and sensitive documents, but they'll make sure they go straight to the dump without any unnecessary delay. It's a cost-effective and modern way to deliver the kind of service that your customers deserve.
Contact Paper Recycling and Shredding Specialists through the links above today to find our how to get started.
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( 0 / 0 )If you do business in the United States or any other technologically advanced nation, document shredding is not an option, it’s a necessity. In past years, before the internet, you might have been able to get away with throwing away company paperwork in the trash, but if you do that now you’re just asking for trouble. The smallest scraps of information can be used by identity thieves and computer hackers to do damage to you personally and your company as a whole.
Mobile shredding is shredding taken to another level. Decreasing the number of people who handle your documents before they are destroyed increases security. With fewer eyes to view what is actually on those sheets of paper, there is significantly less of a chance that the minds behind those eyes register the fact that the information has a cash value to it. If they are not in the market for it themselves, they could still sell it. Everyone has a home computer today and times are pretty tough for a lot of folks.
No one wants to think about their trusted employees turning into thieves and scavengers, but the waste baskets inside your office are a goldmine of information for anyone looking to find information on your company, your workers, or your customers. If you’re not shredding documents you are just leaving them around for all to see. Balling them up and throwing them in the waste paper basket is not eliminating the possibility of someone getting their hands on them. It’s making it easier for them.
A shredding company is part of your security team, a partner in a world where you need a professional to handle the destruction of your documents and the recycling of the paper those documents are printed on. PRSS can be that partner you are looking for. Our mobile shredding trucks are the most secure way you will find to dispose of all the paperwork which contains information that can be used to hurt you, your employees, and your customers. You have a legal obligation to protect that information, but it’s also responsible business to pay attention to it.
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( 0 / 0 )What should you shred and what should you archive? Should you separate important documents to be destroyed by the shredding service and just toss everything else in the regular trash bin like you always have before? These are important questions when you are contemplating the hiring of a shredding company. The choices are in your hands and dependent upon the level of work you want to do and whether or not you have the manpower and the budgets to do it.
You are required by California State law to shred any material that has private personal information on it such as social security numbers, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, or other information that can be used for computer hacking or identity theft. These documents are generally used in specific departments so you’ll want to set up “Shred It” boxes in human resources, finance, and credit departments. You’ll also want to go over the guidelines of the law with your employees.
Archiving is usually done electronically now instead of the old fashioned way, which was storing everything in file cabinets. External hard drives and secure online storage facilities are far more space conservative than buying new furniture. Documents that need to be saved can be scanned and then the originals can be discarded after being separated into mandatory shred or not mandatory. It’s time consuming but you will achieve your goals of tighter security by doing it this way.
You could also skip all the sorting and just have PRSS shred all of the paperwork you use in your office. We provide our customers secure containers which they use as waste baskets for paper. When your employees throw paper away, any paper of any level of importance, they can use these bins. Our mobile shredding truck will show up on a regular cycle and empty them into the shredder while we are there. Your intact documentation will never leave the site. It will be shredded and then the shreds will be transported to a recycling facility to be turned into blank sheets of paper again.
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( 0 / 0 )Why is it that your competitors always seem to know what you’re doing before you release it to the general public? Larger corporations just write this off as part of doing business. There is always someone who will say something while having a few drinks, share with their significant other, or mention company information on a phone call to someone else who will pass it on. Security is impossible to maintain when there are large groups of people privy to the information you’re trying to keep secure.
Do you think that someone might be crawling into your dumpster at night to get that information? Is your waste bin or recycling box looking a little emptier in the morning than it was when you left last night? Most businesses don’t have Mission Impossible intrusions in the middle of the night, but dumpster diving and trash picking are real methods of industrial espionage that people do practice. Document shredding eliminates the possibility of them being successful.
You are most vulnerable in your trash. Police officers conducting investigations can go through someone’s trash and find out everything about them. If you put items like cancelled checks, job applications, or credit applications with personal bank account information on them out in the trash, you can expect to have them stolen. As a business in California, you are actually required by law now to destroy those documents by using a shredding service or personal shredding machine. With the service you get a certificate of shredding as proof.
You could buy a big dog and have it watch your dumpster at night, but then you’d have to feed it and it might bite an employee. You could install a fence around the dumpster, but once a thief was over it, the fence would just provide cover for the thievery. Your best bet is to hire a mobile shredding company and have us come to you on a regular basis to pick up and destroy your documents. That way, dumpster diver will get nothing when he jumps in there late at night and anyone in your office raiding waste baskets will be forced to actually work for a living.
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