Not having a handle on your business information is scary stuff—it damages your bottom line, stifles productivity, and can ruin customers’ confidence in your organization. As 2017 approaches, beware of these information management nightmares.

Your customers are your most important asset; without them, you'd be out of business. That's why safeguarding the financial and personal information collected from them is critical. Here's a quick guide to help you protect your customers' privacy.

The Better Business Bureau recommends shredding things like banking documents, medical bills, pre-approved credit card applications, and any document that contains Social Security numbers, birthdates, PIN numbers and passwords.

Georgia hospital records dumped on side of road by a off-site shredding company in Snellville, GA. http://ow.ly/qAjqh

This picture was taken from the middle of the Chattahoochee River at low flow on a beautiful sunny day. The mill in the background is the main building of the Historic Bibb Mill, the one that caught fire in 2008. Fortunately, we had vacated that building in 2007 and moved to a warehouse at the south side of the complex- behind the trees. The fire almost spread over to our building, and might have, were it not for my Dad, John Barwick.

Do you know how the HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule is going to affect you, as a Business Associate? This blog will give you some helpful advice for managing your business relationships with companies that generate Personal Health Information (PHI)

2012 is finally here and it's time to take another hard look at off-site records storage in Columbus.  If your business doesn't currently use off-site records storage in Columbus, now is a good time to think about it.  Document storage rates are much cheaper than renting or leasing additional office space for storage and are even cheaper than renting mini-storage areas.  Records build up over time and the last thing you want is your document storage costs eating up valuable capital in these tough economic times.  You need your space and you money put to the most productive use possible.  With off-site records storage in Columbus, you get a cost effective and safe way to manage your archive storage needs.

Frequently on this blog, we highlight areas that are worth spending some time on when it comes to data management and one of those areas is hard drive destruction in Columbus.  Hopefully, by now, your employees have a good understanding of an effective data management program and how important it is to protect your sensitive information.  You also need to ensure, however, that your employees understand the importance of proper hard drive destruction in Columbus.

About a month ago, we stressed the need for you and your business to examine your document/data management program comprehensively and one of the areas you should pay close attention to is hard drive destruction in Georgia.  Some of your most sensitive data is kept on your computer hard drives and with the fast pace of technology today, computers can be replaced at a rapid rate.  These old computers often end up stacked in storage areas and before long the office manager is asking someone to dispose of, recycle or worse, give away those old computers - of course with hard drives intact.  This could potentially be one of the worst mistakes your company could make.  Hard drives are a treasure trove for thieves bent of stealing someone's identity or stealing your company's secrets.  This is why proper hard drive destruction in GA is so important.  Whenever you dispose of your old computers, make sure you are contracting with a shredding service to take care of your hard drive destruction in Georgia.