Confidential Shredding destroys and recycles all your confidential papers
By Dylan Skriloff
When Congress passed mandatory paper shredding laws in the mid-1990’s to protect Americans from identity theft, one result was a whole new industry. Companies like Confidential Shredding LLC, with offices in Suffern, NY, Greenwich, CT and Woodcliff Lake, NJ, are now part of the business scene, offering on-site destruction of your documents and guaranteed recycling of the end results. All costing less than doing it yourself.
The company has grown dramatically in the last several years through cold calling, old-fashioned hard work and a commitment to the privacy of their clients. Clientele range from high-end residences to major corporations and government agencies. “We have Fortune 500 companies, hospitals, banks, legal and accounting firms—even a few high profile celebrities who need to protect their personal information from the curious,” he said. “All we do is on-site shredding. We take the security of it very, very seriously. There are licenses you need. We are AAA-NAID certified.”
In addition to one-time cleanups, Confidential Shredding offers weekly, biweekly or monthly shredding contracts and all their work is done on-site. This is how it works – first the company does a security document audit to establish specific shredding needs. Then each of their clients is given a secure bin to dump their paper. A specially equipped truck visits the site on a regular schedule, depending on client needs, and those bins are emptied into a shredder built into the side of the truck. Eventually, the cross-shredded papers are dumped at one of several recycling facilities in the tri-state area.
Got records and documents better left unread by strangers? Confidential Shredding will end your worries.
For more information on Confidential Shredding, LLC or for a free consultation, call them at (866) 79–SHRED.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) made paper shredding a necessity of law. In that bill, Congress recognized the need for national patient record privacy standards. The law included provisions designed to save money for health care businesses by encouraging electronic transactions, but also required new safeguards to protect the security and confidentiality of that information. When the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACTA) became law, it too required businesses to destroy personal paperwork and take appropriate measures to prevent identity theft.