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What Is Document Shredding Compliance?
Businesses collect a tremendous amount of confidential information. Employee records, customer files, financial documents, medical information, tax records, contracts, applications and even everyday paperwork can...
November 4, 2026
What Company Does Your Shredding? It’s a Question Worth Asking
Most businesses know they need to shred confidential documents. But there’s another question that may be even more important: What company does your shredding? When...
October 27, 2026
Think Twice Before Using a Drop-Off Document Shredding Service
When you have old tax returns, financial records, medical information, bank statements, employee files, or other confidential paperwork to destroy, dropping everything off at an...
October 20, 2026
How Do I Get Rid of Decades of Papers?
If you have been saving paperwork for 10, 20, 30 years—or even longer—you are definitely not alone. Basements, attics, garages, storage rooms, filing cabinets, and...
October 14, 2026
Do Very Old Files and Documents Need to Be Shredded?
When cleaning out an office, basement, attic, storage room, or old filing cabinet, it’s common to come across documents that have been sitting untouched for...
October 5, 2026
What Is the Due Diligence Clause in Privacy Laws?
Businesses spend a lot of time protecting confidential information while they are using it. Passwords, locked filing cabinets, cybersecurity systems and employee policies are all...
September 30, 2026
Recent Posts
How Are We Going Green With Our Shredding Services?
How Are We Going Green With Our Shredding Services? From the home office to the professional production environment to the elementary classroom–wherever you look today,...
August 10, 2017
What Does HIPAA Really Say About Information Security?
What Does HIPAA Really Say About Information Security? HIPAA regulations require healthcare organizations to keep patient information secure and private, but what does this act...
August 4, 2017
Disposing Your Hard Drives the Secure Way
Disposing Your Hard Drives the Secure Way Technology plays a huge role in our lives. We use it to manage our paperwork, personal finances, businesses,...
June 21, 2017
Document Disposal on Your Schedule
Document Disposal on Your Schedule As light as a sheet of paper is, a drawer full of them can get heavy fast. If you have...
June 12, 2017
You’re Not Being as Safe as You Think
If you follow our blog regularly, you know that FileShred is proud to be NAID certified. NAID (National Association for Information Destruction) is an international...
May 5, 2017
Is Your Company at Risk Due to Improper Document Shredding?
Most people don’t often think about information theft. They take security measures for their home, their car, their money, but it doesn’t usually occur to...
March 16, 2017
Document Destruction Doesn’t Happen in Your Trashcan
A common thing victims of digital identity theft often say is, “But I deleted all my files!” This is concerning for us at FileShred for...
March 2, 2017
Complying with HIPAA Policies in 2017
Last year saw a considerable amount of reinforcement efforts and resolution agreements from the Health and Human Services branch of HIPAA, as well as further...
February 1, 2017
FileShred Recieves NAID AAA Certification!
With more and more companies providing data destruction services throughout the country, the need to regulate the quality and security of these services increases as...
January 31, 2017
The Shredding Industry & Paper Recycling
A common question we get at FileShred is “What happens to the paper after it’s shredded?” It’s an understandable query given the incredibly high volume...
January 22, 2017
Benefit from Hard Drive Destruction in Hartford
The vast majority of businesses has gone digital. Gone are the days of having all your documents in a file cabinet or desk drawer. Because...
January 12, 2017
What Types of Documents Are Valuable to Identity Thieves?
Did you know that nearly 90% of identity thieves use sensitive information gained from print sources rather than those found online? Many people are surprised...
December 8, 2016
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