On-site document shredding in Georgia is a critical data management strategy to protect against identity theft.  On Monday this week, news organizations reported on a breach of patient records at Emory University Medical Center.  You can read about the breach here.   It appears an employee printed out over three thousand billing records for patients at the orthopedic clinic at the medical center and those records had significant amounts of sensitive personal information on them.  Some of them were later used to fraudulently create fake identities for people, and investigators have arrested a woman in connection with the crime.

As we've said before, on-site shredding services in Columbus are only as good as the training for the employees who utilize it.  You can have the best shredding services company in the world with a great staff and the latest technology, but if you haven't trained your employees properly in regards to your on-site shredding services in Columbus, the value of those services will be largely minimized.

Hopefully, by now you've been able to conduct the trash test we discussed in the last posting and have clearly understood the need for on-site shredding services in Georgia. Most likely, you found several pieces of information in more than one trash bin that could have been used by criminals or an unscrupulous competitor.

In today's tight economy, it is common for companies to ask if they really need on-site shredding services in Georgia.  Some small businesses consider this type of service a luxury item and less of a must have.  Unfortunately, businesses that make that decision are putting themselves at great risk.

People often ask, “Why do I need to use on-site shredding services in Georgia?”  The answer is simple, protect your customers, protect your employees and protect your business.  First, let’s look at what kinds of information need to be protected and then we’ll look at what it means to be protected.  Basically, any piece of information that can be traced to an individual needs protection.  A name with a birth date, a name with a social security number – these are the easiest examples.  Here are some other types of information (not a full list, of course) which on-site shredding services in GA can help businesses manage: