Resolve to Shred Your Security Threats in 2017!

We all make resolutions, whether personally or professionally the New Year marks a great opportunity for folks to reset and refocus. Planning for your business should be no different. As information security continues to be a hot-button topic, businesses should strive to protect their documents and information all the time. We have put together a list of a few resolutions you can make in your office to help “shred” some common security threats in the new year!

 

  1. Know the Threats:
    Stay informed about the constantly changing landscape of information security. Keep up to date with the changing threats and the new identity thieves are accessing information. Staying informed about threats will help you better maintain your information security policies.
  2. Be Compliance Aware:
    The rules and regulations for compliance are constantly changing. Make sure you keep up to date on best-practices and complete routine compliance checks within your organization
  3. Create a Culture of Security:
    Through training, education, and improvement of everyday practices, you can create a culture of security within your organization. In addition, add to your culture of security by using reputable 3rd party suppliers to manage any tasks that you don’t maintain in house.
  4. Secure Your Digital Assets:
    Make sure you are doing your best to safeguard your digital assets and information by using secure servers, creating unique logins for each employee, and keeping your IT systems up-to-date so they are able to detect and reduce security risks.
  5. Create a Document Retention Policy:
    Developing a set plan for how your employees should handle documents (from creation, to active and archive storage, all the way through destruction) is key to minimizing information security threats. Maintaining and updating this policy, as well as providing training and education regarding document retention and destruction is key.
  6. Implement a Secure Destruction Policy:
    Whether you are managing paper or digital information, having a secure destruction procedure for your outdated information is very important. Working with a secure shredding company, like Augusta Data Storage will help to ensure that documents you are ready to dispose of don’t end up in the wrong hands. Additionally, if you are looking to get rid of old computers, servers, and hard-drives, it’s important to make sure these items are destroyed as well, since hackers can still remove information from discs if they are not erased properly.