There’s no doubt you have an emergency plan, as well as insurance, and a general safety plan within your business. But, if you do not integrate data destruction within your data security plan, you are missing one of the most important pieces to keep your business safe.
You can shred documents and even cds and media yourself. But how thoroughly do they destroy sensitive data? You are not only responsible for your own data. You are also responsible for the data of your company and that includes your customers.
Here are some reasons why getting a professional data destruction company to help is important:
- Destroying your own media discs and data is often not enough to totally destroy it. Third parties can sometimes come along and rejuvenate the data on the discs and render it readable again. Can you really take that risk?
- Hard discs can be reconstructed if not destroyed completely and the data can be obtained using special equipment. To entirely destroy it with no signs of the data left behind, you need a professional to do this.
- Many shredders or other machines available today are not sufficient to completely destroy hard drives or data discs. They leave a digital fingerprint behind for others to revive.
- There is legal liability involved in letting data get into the wrong hands, even when the data is no longer important to your client or your customer.
- The information which involves your customers’ health, insurance, or credit information, can create a legal nightmare for you if someone can compromise it.
- Complete destruction of data is essential to comply with such federal legislation as the FACTA, and HIPAA.
As you can see, there are many reasons to make sure your data, hard drives, and data discs are completely destroyed once they have outlived their usefulness. Doing it yourself is an option, but it may not take care of the problem completely, as you run the risk of third parties using the information later. If you are a business who deals with sensitive financial, health, or other consumer information, you cannot take this risk.
If you need a professional data destruction solution, contact us. That’s what we do.
