Arachno 1D Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 So you have plenty of milk for your tea +Raze and He's Dead Jim 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beanboy89 Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Yes. We have a decent size shredder which can handle a fair amount of paper quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
123456789A Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Hello, This is a stupid question but why not a paper shredder that is locked, one-way, and at the end of each day an ISO9001 certified contractor reshreds it? Because the NSA has hidden scanners inside some paper shredders and it beams the contents of the paper to them. No really, probably because a large volume shredder costs and weighs a lot. A bin is a lot easier to manage and it costs less to have a contractor shred it. At Enron, we shredded a lot of documents. A lot of them. +Raze 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arachno 1D Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 So a lot of wasted paper in effect as its a temporary media in most cases ergo some eink paper might be a greener solution. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian M. Veteran Posted January 18, 2014 Veteran Share Posted January 18, 2014 Hello, This is a stupid question but why not a paper shredder that is locked, one-way, and at the end of each day an ISO9001 certified contractor reshreds it? There's no point shredding it and then re-shredding it. Shredding is a waste of employees's time. I often have hundreds of pages to shred - I can slide them into a locked box, where we pay somebody to come and collect it at the end of the day, instead of sitting there for minutes feeding sheets into a shredder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Montage Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Why an external contractor? The hoops you have to jump through to remains ISO accreddited if you do your own shredding are ridiculous. It is not our primary business focus or a revenue stream so it is actually cheaper to use an external company. To the person who said "Why not just rip it up", you have no idea about the business world it seems, and how accreditation and certification around data security work. But what about your scanners with internal hard drives that store every document scanned,do you have them encrypted? We have a system that scans to hard drive fully encrypted every step of the way. These are purged once the file has reached our secure storage area. So, yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rohdekill Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 I believe he was referring to a copier machine with scanning capability, which most have. This became a concern about 2-3 years ago as these copiers contain hdd. If the copier is sold, thousands of documents could be pulled off the hdd. This has since been resolved with software updates. And, most copier companies now offer to extract the hdd for the customer to keep before being sold for added security. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Raze Subscriber² Posted January 18, 2014 Subscriber² Share Posted January 18, 2014 Why an external contractor? The hoops you have to jump through to remains ISO accreddited if you do your own shredding are ridiculous. It is not our primary business focus or a revenue stream so it is actually cheaper to use an external company. To the person who said "Why not just rip it up", you have no idea about the business world it seems, and how accreditation and certification around data security work. We have a system that scans to hard drive fully encrypted every step of the way. These are purged once the file has reached our secure storage area. So, yes! I believe he was referring to the fact that the OP had a sheet of paper with his personal banking information and that hardly requires a shredder, so simply tearing/cutting it up (thoroughly) would suffice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anibal P Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Just like many others have said at work we have bins for paper to be shredded, one in each printer room Since it's a rather large Healthcare company it generally discouraged that anything be printed in the first place unless it's a necessity, and if something confidential is printed has to be shredded ASAP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kami- Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 <snip>I've never heard of a (flat bed certainly not) scanner with a build in HDD, only those which post the file to a central storage repository such as a secure file area on a LAN-based server. Usually the ones build into Enterprise level printers have built-in storage, the ones in our office I can recall the last 50 documents scanned and print them or move them to a network share (50 document limit is in the software running on the device, I'm sure it stores more). Dick Montage 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKay Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 No. We are a major UK law firm, and so we take the disposal of sensitive data VERY seriously. As such, we have "Shredder bins" which are locked, one-way bins, that at the end of each day an ISO9001 certified contractor shreds for us. Wowza haha, Royal Air Force here, Restricted documents go into a regular consumer shredder, anything higher than restricted gets burnt. Dick Montage 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fusi0n Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 We use a secure bin.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooky560 Veteran Posted January 20, 2014 Veteran Share Posted January 20, 2014 We shred documents, then they get pulverized at some local paper recycling plant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 My shredder at work: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenwizard88 Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 At a law firm I worked at, yes. There's a shredder, but it's only used to destroy case files over 10 years old. Otherwise everything is kept in the case file. At the place i'm at now, no. We're entirely paperless, and the little paper we do use gets put in a "burn box" and once a year (or two years) we have a bon-fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeMaster Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 My shredder at work: I was upset that you were thinking about shredding money, but then I quickly realised, that's not the currency I use. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froggyliver Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Rohdekill, on 18 Jan 2014 - 05:17, said:I believe he was referring to a copier machine with scanning capability, which most have. This became a concern about 2-3 years ago as these copiers contain hdd. If the copier is sold, thousands of documents could be pulled off the hdd. This has since been resolved with software updates. And, most copier companies now offer to extract the hdd for the customer to keep before being sold for added security. Not all model copies are encrypted. I have found the encryption part is usually an extra paid for license to enable it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThreadAbort Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Well, as one of the owners, I have a key to the Shred-It boxes. So, I wouldn't throw anything personal in them anyways. As I could open them nightly and look. Just a thought. Once it leaves the building to the truck, you are good to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arachno 1D Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Not all model copies are encrypted. I have found the encryption part is usually an extra paid for license to enable it. My shredder at work: If that were real money it would be a criminal and a moral offence to destroy it :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Montage Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Yup... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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