What is Digital Media Shredding? Digital media shredding is the total erasure, destruction, and disposal of electronic media products. This process ensures that your private data is completely unreadable and your hardware unusable so that no one can access your data from a product you’ve disposed of. Digital media includes hard drives, media tapes, USBs…
Category: Privacy and Security
Why Choose Managed IT Services Instead of Doing it Yourself
Whether you run your own business or are part of a decision-making team at a large corporation, you’ve probably considered managed IT service once or twice before. Hesitation is perfectly understandable when considering a new service for your company, but there are numerous benefits to relying on managed IT services that far outweigh any imagined…
What Do Managed IT Services Include?
There are a number of services that every IT service provider should include in their packages. If they aren’t included, it may be worth looking into better companies that provide high quality managed IT services like Netcotech. Cyber security is what helps protect your computers against viruses and hacks. This protection will include firewalls, intrusion…
Cost of Managed IT Services
There are a number of different ways you can choose to pay for managed IT services, and the payment style will affect the price of the services. Monitoring only will be one of the cheaper methods of managed IT services, since it works on a tier system to give your business exactly the level of…
How to Reduce Information Risk in the Workplace
No matter how careful a company is, or how securely they protect their data, there is always the risk for information to get leaked either intentionally or by accident. There are three main ways this can happen: on paper, via online threats, or by employees. Paper Risk Although many modern companies mainly have computer-based records,…
What Documents are Confidential
It’s not always easy to determine what types of documents are confidential and which ones can be safely viewed by the public. This goes for personal documents and those belonging to a business. In broad terms, there are three classifications of documents that should remain confidential through all stages of their existence. Documents Containing Personal…
Secure Recycling of Confidential Information
Sensitive information can become a major liability, so it’s critical that it is managed appropriately. It is recommended that a company performs regular checks of their documents to ensure that files are not being kept longer than is legally required, as this increases the chances that information can be leaked and potentially harm the company….
Identity Protection During Tax Season
Identity thieves are more active during tax season than most other times of the year. Why? It is easier to scam people for money by making them believe they owe taxes to the Canada Revenue Agency. These scammers will call or email you claiming to be from the CRA and asking for payment via wire…
Different Types of Shredders
Whether for home or office work, the right shredder can make a huge difference in your security and productivity. There are a variety of shredders that perform at different speeds and shred papers differently. Let’s investigate the different types of shredders available for residential and commercial use. When categorizing paper shredders, we look at their…
The Importance of Protecting Your Personal Information
Every year there are more incidents of people’s personal information being stolen and used for nefarious purposes. Perhaps directly related, every year it gets more difficult to protect our personal information from getting into the wrong hands. If you’re the type of person that throws away corporate documents without shredding or tosses mail into the…