Information security in the workplace is more important today than ever before and it includes more than simply cyber threats. The majority of office employees are still using thousands of sheets of paper each year, averaging to about 45 sheets of paper per day. Paper is not going away anytime soon, so it’s crucial that companies are doing everything possible to secure sensitive business documents.

What are you doing with old information when it’s no longer required?  Unfortunately, some companies think that performing shredding in-house through the use of a shredding machine is the most convenient approach. Assigning employees to “shred” documents during their work hours isn’t exactly productive, though, is it?

In-house document shredding not only lacks in security, it’s also significantly more costly than it is to outsource this task to a company such as Secure Data Recycling.

Why?  Well there is human error when in-house shredding is carried out, employees are left making the decision as to how confidential each piece of information might be and whether it requires shredding or not, the problem with that if there are any mistakes made, it could lead to costly breaches.

Our advice is to contact us here at Secure Data Recycling and outsource to an experienced document shredding provider that also supplies locked containers, for safe and secure storage of documents prior to disposal. Security trained professionals will collect and remove your documents for either on-site or off-site shredding.