When dealing with hard drives and old computers, along with other kinds of e-waste, you must get them shredded, and here are the reasons why.
o completely safeguard your business, you want to ensure you’re properly maintaining and protecting all confidential files and sensitive information. If you aren’t correctly handling this data, you are putting your business at risk for any kind of breaches, intellectual property theft, or document fraud. This will not only threaten the livelihood and reputation of your business, but it can result in significant regulatory fines as well.
As a preventative measure against any such breaches, most businesses prefer to work with a secure document shredding service that will securely dispose of their sensitive data.
So, what’s your business doing with digital data?
As organizations and enterprises rely more on digital storage for critical information, outdated hard drives, USBs, and similar media devices are being archived and replaced with newer ones. Many people believe that merely deleting or wiping digital data from outdated devices is sufficient to dispose of sensitive information. However, what is frequently ignored is that even if the data is erased from these devices, everything can still be retrieved as long as they are intact.
What does this mean for your business?
Suppose your business is archiving old hard drives, USBs, and similar devices. In that case, these can potentially store thousands of confidential information, whether it’s data about your clients, company emails, accounting files, or legal files.
Unless you entirely destroy these devices, your private data might easily get into the wrong hands, even if you’ve tried to wipe or remove the files from them. When you throw away these devices without destroying them, you expose your company to legal risks such as reputational harm, corporate disadvantage, regulatory penalties, and legal action.
What is the best way to securely destroy a hard drive?
At first, you might think of the whole process of destroying hard drives or other forms of e-waste as a complex procedure, but it’s quite easy. At ATI Secure Docs, once your hard drive is destroyed, we provide a certificate to ensure that your hard drives (and the valuable data on them) are securely and permanently destroyed. In addition, we can even arrange for you to witness the destruction process with your own eyes if you’d like.
To find out more about how ATI Secure Docs can help you protect your information, contact us today.