Archive for the ‘NAIID Certified Information Destruction’ Category

NAID AAA Certification: Is it Really Important?

Friday, September 7th, 2012

naid certifiedThe National Association for Information Destruction is the authority for best practices and legal reasonability standards when it comes to document management, paper shredding, hard drive destruction, etc. AccuShred NW is AAA certified for “mobile and plant-based operations” with “endorsed media destruction for Paper/Printed, Micro Media, and Computer Hard Drives.”

The AAA certification to us demonstrates our serious passion, commitment, and claim to locally provide world-class excellence, while protecting your organization’s privacy. Seeking out a AAA Certified destruction company in the Portland, Beaverton, Vancouver, Salem and broader areas of the Pacific Northwest assures you that the vendor you choose for document shredding will have ongoing routine and surprise audits which verify claims that the shred company is “secure.”

For example, our most recent 2011 AAA certification audit verified the following types of items (among others):

  • All employees with access to secure information have signed legal confidentiality agreements, promising to never release information they are exposed to during the course of work
  • Immigration status of all employees is verified
  • Seven year criminal record search, including Social Security header search (more…)

Hard Drive Destruction & Data Destruction Services

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

“Overkill” is Just Enough

Organizations have an ethical (and sometimes legal) obligation to their clients to protect sensitive information. Disposing of computer hard drives that haven’t been properly wiped can expose your organization, as well as your customers or patients, to devastating breaches of security or privacy. Simply erasing or reformatting hard drives doesn’t guarantee that the (more…)

Medical Records Still Being Kept in Public Storage

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

You would think that in today’s world of litigation and fines a medical practice would be crazy to still be storing personal medical information in a public storage facility – but it still happens, and we just saw it again the other day.  Medical records contain information about individuals that is protected by laws, most relevant, HIPAA. Improperly storing your customers information, whether it is financial information (more…)

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