SHREDDING IN STUART SHREDDING IN PALM CITY SHREDDING IN PORT ST LUCIE SHREDDING IN PALM BEACH
Top 5 Things Customers Need to Know
- Businesses are required and obligated by laws and regulations to destroy and dispose securely of confidential information to reduce the risk of consumer fraud and identity theft. Shredding is the most common acceptable method of destruction and is considered as taking reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to or use of information when it is disposed.
- There are severe penalties for businesses that do not destroy consumer information before it is discarded as required by various federal laws such as HIPAA, FACTA, and GLBA. Violators can face civil liability, class action law suits, enforcement by the federal government, and enforcement by the states. Fines can range from in the thousands to in the millions of dollars.
- Recycling without first destroying confidential media is not a secure method of disposal of confidential information and renders a business vulnerable to information security breaches. Material sent for recycling is often manually sorted in usable and intact form, rendering your confidential information vulnerable to extraction and misuse. Recycling also provides no documentation that confidential information has been securely destroyed.
- Shredding in-house with an office shredder will not provide appropriate legal protection in case of an information security breach. A certificate of destruction from an on-site third party shredding service will prove that a business took all reasonable measures to avoid an information security breach and will also provide appropriate legal protection.
- Placing shredded paper from the office shredder in the trash increases vulnerability to misuse of information by various dumpster divers: criminals looking for personal information; competitors looking for customer data; and reporters looking for a story about your business.
