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Are you giving
competitors the scoop on your business activities? Do criminals
have access to personal information about your employees,
executives, customers, suppliers, and even visitors? If your
disposal program includes a dumpster, a recycling bin, or a
jam-packed file closet, the answer is a guilty “yes”.
This is the Information Age. If you have information, it is at
risk.
$MILLIONS BEING STOLEN FROM YOUR DUMPSTER
Without the proper safeguards, information ends up in the trash
where anyone can remove it. In fact, dumpsters are the most
accessible and revealing resources in corporate espionage.
Account numbers, Contact Information, Intellectual Property,
Meeting Minutes, Personal Information, Research and
Development…these are some of the more obvious documents that
should be safeguarded. Less obviously sensitive are “daily
trash” such as memos, phone messages, rough drafts, reports, and
much correspondence. This information is especially useful to
competitors because it gives them an in-depth look at your
current activities, practices, pricing, suppliers, customers,
etc.
If any of this information becomes available for unauthorized
use, your operations will be compromised, your public image will
be tarnished, and you face litigation. Don’t let it happen to
your company!
DUE DILIGENCE: YOURS & OURS
Perhaps you manage record storage and destruction in-house. This
is risky at best and may be viewed as negligent under law.
Internal compromises (whether malicious or unintentional) are
among the leading sources of proprietary information leaks. A
bonded, licensed service from North American Shredding prevents opportunities to
exploit access to sensitive information.
Merely hiring a destruction or storage contractor does not
absolve you of legal responsibility for your confidential data.
Likewise, a Certificate of Destruction is not a “bulletproof
vest” in litigation. Selecting an under-equipped or dishonest
contractor is more dangerous than having no service at all.
Following a data leak involving such a contractor, an
investigation could find you negligent if your selection process
was not rigorous enough.
Don’t risk loss of business, prosecution or unfavorable
publicity. North American Shredding carefully screens our members and holds them to
superior standards. We urge you to research your choices,
inspect our sites and conduct “drop-in” audits. You will find us
operating at the peak of efficiency under strictly enforced
security measures, every day, for every client. This is our
promise to you and all the parties whose privacy you protect.
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