Commercial Shredding
Retail Store Thefts Target of Dumpster Divers
Most folks are pretty savvy now about shredding medical, tax, and personal identification documents, particularly since businesses are required by law to follow guidelines to protect consumers. One of the business areas often overlooked is something both retailers and customers deal with daily: sales receipts.
Read MoreBanks & Shredding – Music To Our Ears
Banks handle a lot of paper, and while we think of money as “green,” improper handling of non-currency documents at a bank can have employees and bank customers seeing red!
Read MoreDumpster Diving – A Medical Office’s Nightmare
HIPAA (the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) passed in 1996, and set in place very specific national standards for the secure storage and disposal of personal, protected health information by medical facilities, insurance companies, and more.
Read MoreIs a Recent Merger Disrupting Your Secure Shredding Program?
If you’re a client of a national shredding company, your secure shredding programs may have recently changed or a change could be in the works. Recent mergers may mean that your once attentive shredding service is no longer so conscientious of your needs. Most likely, if you are with a “big national,” the recent market changes have resulted…
Read MoreEcoShredding Helps Restaurants Shred More Than Lettuce
You provide favorite meals to regular customers, your employees enjoy working for you, and – according to your business consultant – your food-service business is thriving, thanks to great marketing, a fabulous menu, and your expert business planning and tracking.
Read MoreAvoid Wetware Breaches with EcoShredding
It seems like every day there’s a news story about malware, cyber-attacks, and internet breaches resulting in identity theft, at a potential cost of millions of dollars for individuals and businesses alike. What is rarely reported are Wetware security breaches, which include “Dumpster Diving,” dishonest employees, or plain old human error. These comprise more than…
Read MoreRealtors Need Reliable On-Site Shredding
The great news in real estate is that the market has bounced back this year, with markets at their healthiest since 2006, according to June 2015 data from Realtor.com. Nationally, the median days on the market (or DOM) for residential real estate is 66 days, while in Georgia the median DOM is just 48 days.…
Read MoreTales from the Dumpster: HIPAA Guidelines & Medical Records
Earlier this month, workers cleaning out an abandoned storage unit in Richmond, Kentucky, found 65 boxes of medical records that belonged to a radiology office that is no longer in business. The documents in the boxes contained detailed sensitive information, including patient medical histories, Social Security numbers, and credit card numbers.
Read MoreEcoShredding Meets the Needs of Local Businesses
As a locally owned and operated business, EcoShredding handles the document destruction of many types of businesses, including medical offices, legal offices, banks and other financial establishments, restaurants, retail store, and more, within North Metro Atlanta. Federal guidelines require that these and other businesses handling sensitive information destroy their printed and electronically stored information according…
Read MoreDumpster-Diving: Rubbish, Riches … and Risk
Austin, Texas security expert Matt Malone is a successful business owner whose job it is to detect security risks to his clients by evaluating their business practices. Malone also has a side business, through which he earns thousands of dollars each month selling new items discovered in unlocked Dumpsters on public property. He stumbled upon…
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