Secure shredding

Selective Shred

Selective shredding services can be effective if there are only certain documents that need to be destroyed, but this option comes with several caveats:

• You’ll have to rely on your employees to decide what gets destroyed.
• You’ll have to create your own guidelines and make sure they adhere to both compliance and environmental laws.
• You’ll have to spend time training your employees on what should and shouldn’t be destroyed, and how to destroy documents securely.
• Your office shredders may not be able to handle the scale of materials needing to be destroyed.
• You’ll need to monitor contents that are placed in trash or recycling bins

Shred-All

Shred-All document destruction is the most straightforward one, and a viable option if processing internally. It instructs employees to securely shred all relevant information no longer required by compliance law, as opposed to placing it in the trash.

• The Shred-All option removes the burden of deciding which documents should be shredded off of employees, eliminating any worry associated with leaving sensitive information behind.
• Although this is a somewhat straightforward option, it requires that your business has equipment like shredding machines that are easily accessible for all employees and that the shredders are resilient enough to withstand the bulk shredding requirements associated with the destruction of large quantities of confidential documents.

Types of confidential material we can destroy

Iron Mountain can securely destroy several types of media, including:

✓ Paper documents

✓ Backup tapes

✓ DVDs

✓ CDs

✓ Flash drives

✓ X-rays

✓Laminated paper

✓ Card stock

Why choose a secure shredding service?

Why should you use a secure shredding service for taking care of your sensitive documents?

Great question.

Business documents and other media from your office could contain sensitive information that could become a liability to the company if they fell into the wrong hands. A secure shredding service gives you peace of mind that when you decide to purge your old documents, you’re destroying them for good, with no chance of them resurfacing or finding their way into the hands of competitors.

Using a shredding service means you don’t need to go through the arduous process of creating policies and following up with employees to make sure they’re adhered to.

The contents that you would like destroyed will be done so legally and securely, after which the vendor will provide a certificate of destruction attesting to the fact that the information has been destroyed as required.

Why Iron Mountain?

For over 70 years, Iron Mountain has been protecting your sensitive business information through the end of its life cycle.

Whether you’re shifting gears to a new project or moving to a new space, clearing out the clutter of old business documents doesn’t need to be a headache or a security vulnerability. Iron Mountain will take care of your sensitive documents with shredding done by trained and vetted specialists who follow auditable chain-of-custody procedures.

Leader in Document Security

Since 1951, Iron Mountain continues to be a leader in secure document shredding. Our shredding services are NAID’s AAA-certified from i-SIGMA, which ensures Iron Mountain meets the highest legal and compliance regulations required for secure information destruction.

Protect Your Brand and Reduce Information Risk with Iron Mountain. Determine if Iron Mountain’s document storage service is right for you by talking to one of our Customer Service representatives.

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