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Starting up a business is a tough time. Organising finance, finding offices and all the standard responsibilities can mean that privacy and data security are the last items on your agenda. However, compliance with the data protection act is a vital part of any company’s procedures, including start-ups. With many new businesses using technology and.
What are the potential hazards associated with keeping your own business shredding machines onsite? All too often when we discuss shredding, the focus is on the data protection element. The destruction of confidential waste to prevent crimes such as identity theft is now required by law for all companies. This means the majority of companies.
We don’t want to sound like a broken record but we can’t say enough how information destruction and protecting confidential data, applies not only to paper documents but also to electronic media destruction such as credit cards, SIM cards, media equipment, CDs, DVDs, hard disks and hard drives, both external and within laptops and computers..
One challenge to all businesses is when something doesn’t go according to plan. Circumstances can change at any time and will occasionally have a detrimental effect to your own business, despite being out of your control. Disposing of your confidential data in a secure manner is an area where you cannot afford to risk anything.
Meeting data protection legislation within a company means more than just disposing of paperwork. Personal and confidential data is stored across many different formats of electronic media. Hard drives, X-rays, data tapes, CD’s, DVD’s, floppy discs and USB sticks are just a small sample of the things you should consider for media destruction. These require.