Confidential Data Shredding Is Essential for Compliance with GDPR
You may be aware the GDPR comes into effect in May 2018 and while you are reviewing your procedures and ensuring all your electronic data is compliant, please don’t overlook the need to ensure your paper data and any redundant hardware, such as hard drives/discs/tapes are securely destroyed.
Why Should I Shred ?
As a business, under the GDPR if you do not have formal procedures in place to secure any personal data in document form, you could be held liable for a data breach if an individual’s information is obtained and used fraudulently. Shredding is a sure way to ensure your business is protected, as any un-shredded documents have the potential to fall into the wrong hands. Putting sensitive documents into a mixed recycling container is not a sufficient or secure method of disposal.
How can Reef help?
Reef Environmental can provide various solutions to help your company meet the GDPR requirements. Shredding of your confidential papers ensures compliance, by guaranteeing that your documents cannot fall into the wrong hands, or be accessed by others, therefore not exposing your business to a risk of a data breach.
What can you do to prevent a data breach of personal information you are controlling or processing?
Fortunately, this is one of the easiest types of data breach to prevent, as a business you have a duty to ensure that all your documents containing personal information are stored and securely shredded.
It is not sufficient to just tear these documents up into a few pieces. To ensure complete destruction and confidentiality, documents should be shredded to BS EN 15713:2009 standard.
Why put yourself, or your business at Risk, Reef Environmental Solutions Ltd offer a variety of services to deal with any volume of documents that require shredding, from just a couple of sacks to truckloads of pallets of confidential/Sensitive material. In the workplace you should also take measures to guarantee the safety of documents while they are being stored and awaiting shredding, you should ensure they are stored in secure lockable containers, we have a solution to suit your needs and offer sleek lockable office consoles or lockable wheelie bins.
For any advice or guidance on Shredding options, please contact us to discuss your requirements.
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