It’s easy to watch the multinational corporations and prominent political parties getting hacked by fraudsters and think it couldn’t happen to you. These victims have real power and millions of dollars, and it’s easy to understand why somebody would want to hack them. So why bother targeting ordinary people and their business?
To fraudsters, they’re attracted to targets with smaller security budgets. You could be a target too, so if you want to keep your sensitive information the best thing is to call professional shredders. Here’s what they can do for you.
Onsite Mobile Shredding
The best professional shredders don’t only destroy sensitive information that data thieves need to commit fraud, they make doing so easy. Do you have a pile of old paper documents sitting at your home or office that needs to be destroyed? Here are some tips for keeping your private documents safe including everything from banking records, tax forms, old business contracts, or any information that could be damaging if it got into the wrong hands.
A professional shredder will drive over to your home or office and destroy the documents from your driveway in their mobile shredding truck. This means you don’t need to worry about transporting boxes of heavy papers.
When you need to destroy a higher volume of documents, the professional shredder can pick them up in their secure truck and drive them back to their facility, where they’ll be safely destroyed. Either way, it’ll be easy for you to get rid of the documents that pose a liability.
Commercial Data Destruction
We live in a digital age, where electronic devices store loads of information. In the way you may have stacks of old papers you don’t need that pose a data liability, you may also have old electronic devices storing information which could do damage if the wrong people got possession of it.
You may be surprised to see what such a list looks like, as some of the electronics which pose a potential security risk may not be the first ones that pop into your mind: hard drives, flash drives and USBs, back-up tapes and drives, laptops and tablets, cell phones, photocopier and printer memory cards, data tapes, and more.
The essential thing is that the microchips on these devices are destroyed to the point where the data on the devices cannot possibly be retrieved. It’s not enough to throw them into the garbage, or even simply break them. The data needs to be rendered unrecoverable, and that’s what information security experts can guarantee.
If you have old electronic devices that you no longer need and you worry that there’s information on them that you don’t want in the wrong hands, call a professional shredder over to your office today.
Nobody expects that they will be the next victim of identity theft, but you don’t need to be running a corporation or leading a political party to get targeted. Take precautions with your information, and call a professional shredder before your information gets compromised.
