Paper Isn’t the Only Thing You Should be Destroying

Destroying sensitive documents when they are no longer needed is one major step towards keeping your Georgia business secure from data breaches, leaks and identity theft. However the rise of the digital age has forced us to pay attention to more than just paper documents; hackers and dumpster divers are becoming increasingly more capable in their abilities to retrieve sensitive information from recycled or disposed-of electronic devices. These can include old phones, computers and hard drives. You might be surprised to know exactly how much information can be pulled from an old device, even if it’s been “wiped clean”! Have you ever considered whether you are disposing of your electronics in a secure manner?

Whether you are updating your entire computer system, just one computer or are disposing of a defective device, there is always the possibility of an electronic data breach. Luckily there is an ultimate solution for this problem, no questions asked. Shred A Way is pleased to offer media destruction services in addition to our top-grade document shredding services. What exactly do we do? It’s simple; we destroy hard drives, mobile devices, computers and more just as if they were documents!

A Bit of Insight on This Issue

Electronic devices are capable of storing many fragments of recoverable information even after that information has been erased, or devices wiped. This is what allows information recovery businesses to operate; that file you may have thought you deleted is oftentimes still somewhere on that hard drive in a less visible, albeit recoverable state.

The rise in identity theft through technology has sparked a new capability for hackers and dumpster divers to recover immense amounts of information from thrown-out hard drives. This is largely due to a couple of reasons:

• Constantly evolving and accessible data recovery techniques and technologies.
  
• The near-impossibility of completely wiping electronic devices.

There are two courses of action we can take to counter these obstacles when it comes to obsolete or failed hardware;

• Our certified operators will arrive on-site and take any electronics to be destroyed to our facility for immediate destruction.

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• We will bring the destruction to you; we will arrive on-site with our mobile hard drive shredder and destroy your hard drives on site. You can even watch them get destroyed yourself!

Both options are extremely timely, efficient and affordable. Services can be scheduled routinely or on a purge-basis. Following the destruction of your electronics we send the scrap to trusted recycling partners; this process is indeed environmentally responsible as well!

Of course, Shred A Way always ensures our operations are well within spec of regulations set out by key legislations such as HIPAA, HITECH, FACTA and more. If you’d like to discuss further the benefits of media destruction for your business, get in touch with us today! We can discuss your businesses’ unique needs and propose solutions that work for you and your business.