Paper Shredders

Information security is very important these days and shredding documents with sensitive details must be done. Thieves can go through trash and recover information that may allow them to commit identify theft. The bottom line is that if you have private or sensitive information you should be shredding those papers.

Shredders come in varying levels of security. In a nutshell the level of security is higher when the documents are shredding into smaller pieces. Strips used to be enough but industrious criminals can still piece them together. Cross cutting is now the reasonable standard for document disposal.

Shredding in-house is generally safer that hiring a disposal service. Although it can be comforting to know someone else is responsible for a data leak the best is to avoid it completely. Shredding documents as soon as possible and as close to the source is ideal. Shredding services typically take whole documents outside of the building.