From the biggest international corporations on Earth all the way down to tiny local businesses, every organization is going to have to upgrade their equipment at some point in order to remain relevant. When the time comes to make that upgrade, you will need to make sure that your data remains secure. The best way to do this is to invest in professional data destruction services.
After all, if your hard drives have been destroyed, then they can no longer be accessed. It is a far better method for making that data inaccessible than relying on your ability to create strong passwords and just hoping that those passwords won’t end up getting broken. There is a wealth of data on your hard drives. So, leaving it on there when you dispose of those drives is just asking for your security to be compromised.
You might be wondering why you would need professional data destruction services, especially if your business is small and appears to not be the kind of place that data thieves would target. Well, here are just a few things that potential data thieves might be interested in acquiring from your data stores.
Employee Records
Your data storage will almost certainly include records for current and previous employees as a business. These records can include things like their address, phone number, bank account pin numbers, etc. Letting this sort of data get stolen can result in your employees becoming victims of identity theft. It can also result in having their bank accounts hacked, and increasing the amount of spam mail they are subjected to. It’s important to keep these records secure and to wipe out your drives when they are no longer being used to avoid this kind of thing.
Customer Information
The amount of information largely depends on how large your business is. Atleast, you will probably keep records of business transactions, payment info, addresses and possibly social security numbers. The issue here is that you aren’t just putting yourself at risk by failing to have this data stored securely. You are potentially putting customers at risk as well.
Unless you’re doing business out of a wooden box with nothing but cash and everything you record is kept in paper form (which is a bad idea but for different reasons) you are likely to have all of this and more in your records at some point. You may be tempted to try and save money by just storing this data away and not disposing of the drives or by destroying the drives yourself and hoping for the best. This really is just asking for trouble. Data present on drives that have not been properly disposed of can still be accessed given enough time and effort. So it’s in your best interests to make sure your hard drives are properly disposed of.
Contact Phiston
Luckily, you can rely on us here at Phiston to provide solutions to your secure data destruction needs. Contact us today to find out which of our products is right for you and your business.
