Posts by Sean Fredricks
Keeping Information Secure With Proper Document Storage
There are many ways to ensure that your secure documents remain that way, whether you are dealing with electronic or hard copies. Here’s how to secure and store your sensitive documents. Identity theft cases across the U.S. are on the rise, which is why it’s important for businesses to take the proper precautions to protect…
Read MoreICYMI: Certificates of Destruction, Compromising Work Habits, and Visual Hacking
Here’s what you missed on the Legal Shred blog this month…
Read MoreKeep Your Mobile Device Safe With These Data Security Tips
Why you need to secure your mobile device and how to best protect your information. Smartphones and mobile devices are a one-stop payment, personal health, work, gaming, productivity, texting, and social media-using machine. We use them to do just about everything, from mobile banking to navigating new places, to emailing out last-minute notes on a…
Read MoreVisual Hacking: What It Is and How to Prevent It
Visual hacking is a security threat that is often overlooked. This is the act of stealing information by simple observation and it’s success rates are as high as 90%. Here’s what you need to know. Perhaps you lock up your files, keep your digital data under lock and key, and authenticate users around your office…
Read MoreAre These Work Habits Compromising Your Company’s Security?
You may be more susceptible to a data breach if you or your employees have any of these work habits. A data breach can be your worst nightmare. Not only could it be disastrous for your company’s brand, it could lead to significant revenue losses and regulatory fines. While you may take digital data security…
Read MoreRuskin Seafood Festival Legal Shred
Ruskin Seafood Festival Legal Shred The 28th Annual Ruskin Seafood Festival welcomes you to E.G. Simmons pristine waterfront park right on Tampa Bay featuring Sun, Fun & Seafood! The Seafood Festival is South Hillsborough County’s largest community event with over 25,000 in attendance in 2015! Fabulous Seafood & More! Feast on savory seafood fare, enjoy a variety of live music and…
Read MoreWhy You Should Outsource Your Document Destruction Needs
Why You Should Outsource Your Document Destruction Needs Routine paper shredding, or document destruction, comes with a host of benefits: confidential information is destroyed, thus keeping it out of the hands of wrongdoers, it protects your business reputation, and contributes to the health of the environment by recycling waste that would otherwise end up in…
Read MoreCredit Scars: Youngest Victims
Credit Scars: Youngest Victims posted by Alex Ferreras on May 8, 2012 in Credit (Source: Mike Wagner and Jill Riepenhoff The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio (MCT) — By the time Kimberly Dean was in eighth grade, she had a mortgage, dozens of credit cards and enough debt to fill six pages on a credit report. The…
Read MoreGovt to release report on identity theft
Govt to release report on identity theft Federal and state governments are working on new laws which will help victims of identity theft re-establish their credit histories. Federal Home Affairs Minister Bob Debus says he will release a report this week which tracks the nature, impact, extent and cost of identity crime, as well as…
Read MoreIdentity theft costs an average of $31K
Identity theft costs an average of $31K The average cost of identity theft and resulting fraud in cases solved by the US Secret Service over a six-year period was more than $31,000, according to a study. Research by the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection (CIMIP) looked at 734 cases with an identity theft…
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