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This is a photo one of our Shred driver's took while servicing a customer. The man is reading through information that he had just leaned into grab out of the dumpster.

Protect Your Investment

In 2003, the American Society of Industrial Security estimated that theft of trade secrets could be as high as $100 billion.

Items commonly stolen are:

• customer lists
• financial documents
• engineering specifications
• drawings
• vendor purchasing information

Protect your intellectual property, customer relationships, vendor sources, and budgetary information by securely shredding discarded documents.

Every business discards information on a regular basis. The challenge is to ensure that information is protected from unauthorized access. This includes:

• phone messages
• daily transaction reports
• customer lists
• business records
• old floppy discs
• computer CDs
• and even old computers

Hiring a Service to Shred for You

Outsourcing shredding is growing in popularity and has become the preferred information destruction solution for many organizations big and small. Personal information needs to be properly destroyed no matter how small the office is. Employees are often already responsible for many other important tasks. Outsourcing your business shredding needs may, therefore, be more reliable and convenient than doing it yourself.

Not every shredding service takes security seriously. You should require that the service you choose screens employees, has the proper insurance, and prevents unauthorized access to the material before and after it is shredded. Ask for documentation of this before you hire a shredding service provider. Making sure you are dealing with a reputable firm with the proper security in place, is of the utmost importance.

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