Identity Theft News
Have a Home Business? Don’t Discount Document Security
Home-based businesses need a document security plan in place. Here’s how to start. When it comes to safeguarding document security, the challenge for home-based businesses is there are aren’t enough processes to mitigate risk while generating, using, and sharing documents. It is up to the home-based business professional to create, secure, and implement a document…
Read MoreData Hoarding? Shred Those Drives and Unused Documents
Data hoarding is just like physical hoarding: it creates useless junk that makes it very difficult to find what we need when we need it. Shred unused drives and documents! Collecting data, while useful, can quickly become a problem if collection turns into data hoarding. Organizations have reacted to the data explosion by hoarding data…
Read MoreHard Drive Destruction Myths Debunked
Think hard drive destruction is as easy as using a magnet? Think again. So you have a hard drive that needs to be destroyed, but you’re not sure how to go about it. There are a lot of myths out there on how to do it yourself, but this is not a job you want…
Read MoreHeads Up, Small Businesses: Take Your Data Security Seriously
Small businesses may seem like easy targets when it comes to data theft. Don’t become a statistic. A lack of resources and a false sense of security can make small businesses enticing targets for hackers. Breaches at large companies make the headlines, but small companies are at risk too. Don’t be a small business statistic…
Read More5 Ways to Improve Data Security Today
Don’t wait to improve your data security. Here’s how you can take charge of your data protection today. How safe are you from cyber criminals? You may have basic virus protection software, or if you run a business, you warn your employees not to open suspicious email attachments. Strong security goes beyond the bare minimum. …
Read MoreHard Disc Drive Vs. Solid State Drive Destruction
THIS MONTH, LEGAL SHRED IS LOOKING AT THE BENEFITS OF HARD DRIVE SHREDDING AND WHY IT IS THE SAFEST, MOST SECURE WAY TO ENSURE THAT YOUR OLD AND OBSOLETE HARD DRIVES ARE RENDERED UNUSABLE. Solid state drives are not the same as hard drives, and how they’re destroyed is based on how they’re engineered. Solid…
Read MoreDegaussing vs Hard Drive Shredding
THIS MONTH, LEGAL SHRED IS LOOKING AT THE BENEFITS OF DEGAUSSING vs HARD DRIVE SHREDDING AND WHICH IS THE SAFEST, MOST SECURE WAY TO ENSURE THAT YOUR OLD AND OBSOLETE HARD DRIVES ARE RENDERED UNUSABLE. In the age of technology where we store vast amounts of personal, confidential, or even classified information on electronic storage…
Read MoreShip and Shred vs. Mobile Hard Drive Destruction: Which Is More Beneficial?
According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, “Destruction of media is the ultimate form of sanitization.” Most of the standards that exist to erase a hard drive mention several ways to physically destroy one including disintegration, grinding, pulverization, incineration, melting, and of course, shredding. This month, Legal Shred is looking at the benefits…
Read MoreShredding Different Types of Media
Want to protect your identity beyond the paper trail? Here’s how you can do it. While document destruction can help you maintain your reputation and preserve your identity, whether it’s business or personal, shredding isn’t exclusive to just paper. Your identity can be spread far and wide on a variety of different media, from hard…
Read MoreProtect Your Identity: Prevent yourself from becoming an identity theft statistic through prevention, not luck.
Protecting your identity isn’t so much about luck as it is diligence. Perhaps you’re one of the fortunate consumers or businesses that has never had to deal with identity theft, but don’t think for a minute that it’s because of luck. Identity protection isn’t something you want to gamble with, and the reasons go far…
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