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Security In Shredding sponsors Ballycommon Sponsored Ride 2015 in aid of Nenagh Special Summer Camp

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Security in Shredding sponsors Ballycommon Sponsored Ride 2015 in aid of Nenagh Special Summer Camp.

Security in Shredding sponsors Ballycommon Sponsored Ride 2015 in aid of Nenagh Special Summer Camp.

Away from Data Protection and Secure Data Destruction (Paper Shredding, Media Shredding and Secure WEEE Recycling); Ballycommon Sponsored Ride 2015 approached us, Security in Shredding with regard to sponsoring an advert and a cross country jump in aid of Nenagh Special Summer Camp.

Not only did the Company donate to the great cause but the brave staff also raised funds and took part themselves and their horses in the event for the day. See photo below.

The Ballycommon Sponsored Ride 2015 was very well organised and well done to all involved.

Security in Shredding are delighted to have the opportunity to contribute to this very worthy cause – Nenagh Special Summer Camp.

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Confidential Product Destruction Through Secure Shredders and Professional Vendors

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In today’s technologically advancing corporate and business environment, confidentiality is becoming an essential and significant chore to establish in order to maintain success and hold onto market share. Whether it is confidential data on documents or data stored on hard disks, availability of security in shredding service has made it easier to destruct the personal data and documents in a secure manner that ensures that the client is compliant with all relevant legislation. Document shredding Dublin is a service in Ireland for confidential data destruction and has an established client base.

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Product destruction at a glance

If you are operating in the manufacturing industry, secure and confidential disposal of your sensitive business products containing trademark information is critical due to patents, legislation and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Standards. When you have to securely protect your business brand, it’s essential to hire a professional and experienced data destruction company. A reliable document destruction company with the product destruction services can only preserve your brand’s privacy and image..

Here are few products that may require immediate destruction

  • Defective damaged products
  • Pharmaceutical boxes & foils
  • Medical devices
  • Product recall items
  • Charity collection baskets
  • Out-of-date stock
  • Counterfeit goods
  • Printed labels
  • Swipe cards
  • I’d badges
  • Credit cards

To destruct all products that contain a confidential element and are no longer in use, call the trained shredding providers offering the secure destruction service to help. Getting advice from the most suitable service would meet your requirements.

Product destruction – an environmental solution

The Environment has become an important factor in developing business strategies for companies whether it’s in Ireland or around the world. Ireland’s citizens and market forces are trying their best to achieve sound environmental performance.

Secure Product Shredding makes a system and provides an environmentally friendly service, with all shredded material being fully destroyed and recycled in line with the European Waste Hierarchy.

Document shredding provides peace of mind to their clients about their material which is destroyed prior to entering the disposal activity. You can calculate the success in implementing Eco-friendly systems; just go through the testimonials of shredding companies.

Getting a destruction certificate in addition to the certificate of disposal in regards of product destruction shows the compliance and professionalism of a shredding service. Clients in accordance to it

A certified products destruction company like All Security Mobile Shredding Ltd. provides shredding programs for business and residents by utilizing the most rigorous security standards and document handling procedures.

“The Security of the Cloud …”

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iCloud security wake-up call

 

As a result from the security issues surrounding iCloud, “The general move to cloud services is going to suffer..” “In the wake of a leak at the start of the month, Apple added new security measures to its iCloud service. Apple was late to the game with two-factor authentication, but most of these (celebrity) images were likely hacked before it brought in that update”, Conor Flynn stated to the Sunday Business Post. “These leaks should act as a wake-up call to Irish smart-phone users to keep account of where their data is being stored, according to Michael Conway – director of Renaissance”.

If the public was better educated about the methods and locations for storage of their data, it would minimise the risk to the user. “People share information so-freely in social media circles, the logical step is just saving that information in the cloud”.

According to the Sunday Business Post, the simple solution is to encrypt your files before saving to a cloud service because even if that cloud provider is compromised, your files are useless to anyone who gets them without the encryption key.

IRISH COMPANIES ARE SUFFERING FROM DATA BREACHES

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“IRISH companies are suffering data breaches in record numbers, according to a major new survey from The Irish Computer Society.”

Firstly the definition of a data breach according to wikipeadia – “A data breach is a security incident in which sensitive, protected or confidential data is copied, transmitted, viewed, stolen or used by an individual unauthorized to do so.”

It has being discovered that “four-fifths of all Irish data breaches come from firms employees”.

The survey, conducted among IT administrators in 256 Irish-based companies, reveals that more than half of Irish firms have experienced a data breach in the last 12 months, with 22pc suffering multiple breaches.

To read more about the above information, click here.

For useful information about how to protect your data, click here.

For further advice or assistance you can contact us.

 

 

“Digital protection against USB infections”

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digital condom protects against usb infections

 

“Fake charging stations can be created to harvest sensitive data, and plugging a smartphone into a strange computer can accidentally backup your data to the computer, leaving it accessible by the owner.The USB condom is a small chip with male and female ports which connects between your device and the unknown USB port, linking-up the power cables but severing any potential data connection.” Click here to read more.

Security in Shredding Donate to Another Great Cause

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Away from Data Protection and Secure Data Destruction (Paper Shredding, Media Shredding and Secure WEEE Recycling); The Security in Shredding Team took the hands on approach with The amazing charity “One in Four”.

In March of 2014 Security in Shredding teamed up and got involved in a charity sponsored horse riding event to aid of fund raising for The One in Four Charity. Not only did the Company donate for the great cause but the brave staff entered themselves and their horses in the event for the day.
photo 4 Front:     Presenting the donation to the Charity; Senior Management at Security in Shredding & Maeve Lewis (One in Four Executive Director)

Back:      Staff of Security in Shredding entered into the event.

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Why You Should Physically Destroy Hard-Drives

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When it comes to data stored on your office computer it is difficult to pin point when the data is deleted from the system. Simply deleting files doesn’t truly remove the data from the hardware.

The file information is kept in a directory in order for the operating system not being able to locate it. When a file is deleted, all you are doing is removing it from the directory and flagging that part of the drive as being available for new data.

Until that region of the drive is overwritten the old deleted data can be retrieved using data retrieval software & hardware.

Degaussing is the most common method of data removal from hard-drives for Organisations. Degaussing is the removal of unwanted magnetism from a magnetic field. As a hard-drive operates by spinning magnetised platters thousands of times per minute and reading the information from them with heads within the drive, a degausser is utilised in order to disrupt/demagnetise the magnetic platter making it unreadable for these heads within the drive.

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Degaussed hard drives need to be tagged as “processed” because a degaussed hard drive looks exactly the same as a non-degaussed hard drive. There is no simple or inexpensive way to test the efficacy of the degaussing process other than regularly testing the degausser’s magnetic output and trusting the physics of magnetics.

Disadvantages of Degaussing:

  • Can only be used on magnetic media
  • Degaussing does not provide reporting of the erasure process which is needed to prove regulatory compliance
  • There is no method of guaranteeing that a particular degaussing machine is strong enough to destroy all the data on every hard-drive.
  • Deguassing does not guarantee full data destruction for a hard-drive
  • Other components of the drive are damaged making it difficult to verify the erasure process
  • Degaussing equipment is highly expensive and they sre extremely dangerous to utilise in the area of other electronic devices
  • Modern hard-droves use thicker shielding and require a much stronger electromagnetic field in order to destroy all the data
  • In order to utilise a degaussing machine significant training is required in order for an organisation to maximise security and minimise risk of unsuccessful hard-drive degaussing

With all of the points in relation to degaussing stated above now we can look at shredding. It is brief, there are no risks involved during a professional hard-drive shredding process as the data is 100% guaranteed to be destructed and unrecoverable.

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Advantages of Shredding Hard-Drives:

  • Eliminate the need for storing obsolete data storage hardware in boxes, pallets, offices etc.
  • 100% eliminates the possibility of data breaches in relation to electronic data storage devices It is a cost effective method of electronic data destruction
  • Hard-drives are unusable post shredding process eliminating any risk of data breaches
  • Maintain the highest level of compliance with Legislation in relation to data protection and secure destruction.
  • Environmentally friendly method of data destruction as plastic and metals are recycled from the shredding process

Post researching the area it is clear to see that when it comes to Hard Drive Shredding Vs Hard Drive Degassing the shredding option is a more cost effective and secure method of electronic data destruction. In my next post I will discuss the additional method of electronic data destruction which is Data Wiping and in turn discuss the disadvantages and advantages for an organisation.

For more information email us at: info@securityinshredding.com

Why Media Destruction Of Digital Devices Is Necessary

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At Security In Shredding paper shredding services provide excellent data security. Digital and electronic devices should be treated with the same manner regarding data security. Again a sure fire method of this is physically destroying these devices once they are no longer needed.

Digital Data & Devices

Electronic Data and Electronic Devices have grown rapidly within the Business Environment which in turn has resulted in new data protection regulations being implemented and continuous security measures being improved within organisations. Due to the required high volume of Technology being utilised within Business today in addition to the level of data being gathered there has been true improvements achieved however, there are also serious problems.

At the top of this list is the significant topic of appropriately disposing & recycling the obsolete and end of life devices while protecting the personal data within the given device as organisations are obligated to do through Data Protection Legislation.

So how can an organisation be certain that their data is protected as they dispose of their devices and media that they no longer need or are no longer required to be retained for compliance purposes?

By sourcing experienced professional data (Paper, Media, and Textiles etc.) destruction companies to destruct electronic media an organisation receives many significant benefits.

Benefits such as:

  • Organisations ensure compliance with The European Data Protection Directive
  • Peace of mind that all data within the organisations electronic media is destroyed and non-recoverable.
  • Mitigates the risk of unauthorised use of the organisations sensitive information stored on electronic media.
  • The security of receiving audit ready fully traceable documentation and certification
  • Overall improved efficiency by outsourcing the destruction service to a professional company. Many organisations attempt to conduct the destruction of sensitive material in-house. This has proven in historic circumstances to be time consuming, unsecured, unreliable, untraceable and troublesome for many organisations.
  • Reduced risk of inadvertent disclosure through top level security and experienced safeguards throughout the shredding process whether it is onsite or offsite.

In addition to hard-drive and media storage devices it is essential for clients to be fully aware of the true detrimental risks attached to IT Assets and the disposal/Recycling of them. Today many electronic devices store data within an organisation.

Devices within offices such as:

  • Computer Hard-drives
  • Laptop Hard-drives
  • Printers and Scanners with internal hard-drives
  • Mobile Phones
  • Fax machines
  • Mobiles Phones
  • Servers
  • Other IT assets & office equipment

These all possess a serious risk to an organisation during the disposal/recycling process. With this in mind professional data destruction companies such as Security in Shredding provide IT Asset Disposition services to help organisations to destroy and recycle IT equipment through reliable, experienced, environmentally friendly and best practised methods and services.

For more information on our media destruction service, please visit our page and contact a member of our team if you have any enquiries.

Email us at: info@securityinshredding.com