{"id":580,"date":"2016-04-27T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/?p=580"},"modified":"2018-07-03T09:22:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T09:22:39","slug":"adopting-a-secure-document-shredding-strategy-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/adopting-a-secure-document-shredding-strategy-for-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Adopting A Secure Document Shredding Strategy For Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-158 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/secure-shredding.png\" alt=\"confidential shredding, clean desk policy\" width=\"635\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/secure-shredding.png 635w, https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/secure-shredding-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/secure-shredding-500x237.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>A <strong>secure document shredding<\/strong> policy is integral to any business and protecting customer data is legislative. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataprotection.ie\/docs\/About-the-office-of-the-DPC\/b\/1032.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Data Protection Commissioner<\/a> implements the provisions of<strong> EU Directive 95\/46<\/strong>. Not only are these regulations that require businesses to shred documents securely, but it is also part of running a business and maintaining a positive business reputation.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Why Businesses Need To Securely Destroy Documents?<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Every day, companies create paper documents and these documents require shredding. Practically any document that contains data and especially sensitive data needs to be shredded. In particular data containing the following would be regarded as sensitive data:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Person&#8217;s Name<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Address<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>contact information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Account Details<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Credit Card Details<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Budget Reports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Medical Reports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Payroll information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Legal contracts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Receipt Information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a snippet of what data to shred any and all documents should be securely destroyed by a secure document shredding service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h1><strong>How This Data Can Be Used Against You?<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Not only is forgery and fraud a major issue but also there is of course the potential for bad publicity, loss of customers and lawsuits to name but a few of the dangers. <strong>Identity theft<\/strong> is a common issue with data breaches. Criminals will use this data to either make purchases or obtain more data under the pretence of your name.<br \/>\nIt is important that all businesses shred or destroy certain sensitive documents. Law enforcement, legal industries, government agencies, banks, health care providers, insurance providers, financial brokers, and real estate are just a few industries where managing paperwork is crucial.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>How To Manage Business Documents Safely &amp; Effectively?<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>A detailed security policy for every type of document your business handles\u00a0is essential and employees need to know these policies before starting work.<\/p>\n<p><em>For example:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What are the shredding requirements for the various document types that your company frequently uses? What are employees allowed to photocopy? Incorporating\u00a0a reputable\u00a0<strong>Confidential\u00a0Shredding Company<\/strong>\u00a0that has a good track record. While also training employees about the correct method of destroying\u00a0sensitive documents and ensuring correct secure policies about how long to hold and when to destroy documents.\u00a0 Access to company records should be controlled and restricted to a small number of trusted individuals and there should be rules relating to access of these records. A notification or logging system can also be in place to account for what and where data is being used.<\/p>\n<p>At <strong>Security In Shredding<\/strong> we operate throughout Ireland and frequently do business in areas of <strong>Dublin<\/strong>, <strong>Galway<\/strong>, <strong>Limerick<\/strong>, <strong>Cork<\/strong> and <strong>Waterford<\/strong> areas.<\/p>\n<p>For a more information on <strong>Shredding confidential paper<\/strong> Services &amp; <strong>data destruction service<\/strong>, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/\">www.securityinshredding.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like, Subscribe to our Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/securityinshred\">@Securityinshred<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 A secure document shredding policy is integral to any business and protecting customer data is legislative. The Data Protection Commissioner implements the provisions of EU Directive 95\/46. Not only are these regulations that require businesses to shred documents securely, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/adopting-a-secure-document-shredding-strategy-for-business\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,9,8,5,32,3,26],"tags":[37,58,29,28,49,35,38,50,45,54,43,55,42,33,48,57,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}