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The Importance of a Certificate of Destruction
Certificates of destruction are part of the document and hard drive shredding process. Securely shredding documents, media, and hard drives after their retention period has been reached is vital to the protection of information at the end of its life cycle. Protecting the personal information of your clients, vendors, and employees is not only the […]
How Document Scanning Optimizes Access for Remote Employees
The last 2 years have been transformative for individuals and businesses. From an in-office environment to a completely remote workforce and a hybrid between the two, companies and employees have been separated and forced to adapt to the new workplace. By now, one of two things has either happened. Organizations have either embraced it or […]
5 Records Management Tips for the New Year
A new year means new plans. Businesses small and large are looking to increase productivity and revenues, all while optimizing the procedures to make those strides happen. Guiding these improvements is information, which means the way you are collecting and storing it should also be analyzed to provide the most secure and efficient methods available […]
Document Storage: Barcodes are Your Friend
At one point or another we all have experienced not being able to find something that we desperately need right away. Car keys, a cell phone, a purse or wallet – all things that have gone down that seemingly black hole, consuming a whole morning to find. Thankfully, for those types of items, there are […]
Frequently Asked Questions About Document Shredding
Why do I need Certified Document/Hard Drive Shredding? Document shredding and hard drive shredding is essential because it protects your company’s valuable information from becoming discoverable, and mitigates the risks of identity theft and data breaches. Not to mention, your business may be liable for large fines or prosecution for not abiding by your legal […]
Three Records Management Solutions to Consider for Your Organization in a Hybrid Work Environment
Whether your employees are working remotely or in-office, secure, efficient, and flexible records management solutions can help your organization run smoothly. The needs of your business in this hybrid work environment may have changed and as employees return to in-office work, the way you were storing or destroying information may again have to adapt […]
Remote Employees and Document Shredding
By now, your office and employees have fully adapted to working from home. And working from home shows no signs of disappearing any time soon. So how do you make sure documents that are produced by those remote employees are being properly destroyed at the end of their life cycle? Well, outlining a clear […]
The Pros of Document Scanning
What’s stopping the digitization of your documents? Is it time? Money? Lack of buy-in? Whatever it is, the benefits far outweigh the hurdles that you and your business face when it comes to document scanning. Here are the top 8 reasons to scan your documents and reduce the headache. Free Up Space The office […]
Shred Documents – Waiting Can Complicate The Process
It’s a familiar story. Businesses decide that they will wait to accumulate documents to have a large purge ready when it comes time to have them destroyed. This then becomes an annual process and is identified as the standard operating procedure when it comes time to shred documents. Unfortunately, delaying the destruction of the information […]
VLOG – 30 Second Thursdays – Shred All Policy
In our #30SecondThursdays series, listen to see how a shred all policy benefits your organization. Transcript Hi. Good morning. I’m Doug Williams from Williams Data Management. We’re here today on 30 second Thursdays to talk about secure document destruction. This is a trashcan. This is a recycling bin. This is a security container to secure […]