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Compliant destruction of
sensitive materials is fast becoming a business imperative.
Ever-growing
regulations, consumer demands for protection of personal information, and
requirements to protect business reputation make secure shredding an
essential part of records management.
The law is changing.
Compliance with the
Data Protection Act, Freedom of Information Act, Information Security and
FSA regulations all mean you have a legal obligation to keep your clients
personally identifiable information safe and secure at all times.
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However, The British
Security Industry Association has stated in a report published by Experian
that many companies are too relaxed in their handling of confidential
material. The report was based on research into the contents of 71
commercial organisations' bins. In those bins they found 45% - had
headed paper. 24% - contained documents with a directors' signature, while.
44% - contained whole invoices, and more alarmingly, 20% - had
documents containing useable bank account details. These findings, says the
report, proves a direct link between this relaxed approach to shredding
confidential information and the cost of identity fraud in the UK -
currently at a cost of £1.34bn.
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steps to protect computer based and paper systems they have in use, but
what about archived material - especially material they no longer need
to keep? Conventional shredding may not be good enough - Identity
theft is such a lucrative business now that thieves will spend hours
painstakingly sticking conventionally shredded documents back together to
obtain data they can use to scam banks and financial institutions with.
More worrying, access to hardware and software that can retrieve
apparently deleted or wiped magnetic media such as floppy disks, DAT tapes
and even hard drives is readily available and unless you completely
destroy your backup CD's and DVD's, they are easy to steal and clone
information from.
But what if you could have everything shredded and destroyed in such a
way that mean't no one could ever access the data? Our equipment does
not just shred paper so it is useless to any thief, we can also put
CD's, DVD's, discs and even complete hard drives through it so that
everything is completely and finally destroyed, offering you complete
peace of mind and a full audit trail. |
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