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When we live in such a digital age, it’s easy to forget how much paper we actually use. The focus is on virtual information, digital data and keeping it safe behind closed doors, away from criminals. And while it is incredibly important, it’s not the only...

Shredding is one of those things that most people know they should be doing, but a lot of people don’t whether that’s because they don’t have the time, it’s too much effort or they just don’t have the equipment, every year more and more confidential data is finding...

It’s summertime, which means all the cyber criminals have gone phishing! Of course, for them it isn’t just a summertime trip – it’s a daily grind. In fact, last year over 1,330,523 phishing attacks were recorded – 65% more than the previous year. And that’s just the...

Shredding is one of those things that seems like it would be simple, but actually has a lot of different pitfalls. There are things you can do wrong things you can forget to do or just things that you didn’t know you needed to do. And you will reach a point where it...

By now, you should all know that you need to destroy your computer hard drives once you are finished with the machine, or the hard drive. If you didn’t know that, go back and read this blog for reasons why you should do this. But apparently people have been taking...

Managing productivity in an office setting can be tricky, particularly when the weather is like it is right now! We’re not talking about how to get people to spend less time watching YouTube videos at work or fantasising about ice creams and the beach – but the kind...

Here’s a sad fact. We know that there are a lot of companies out there who don’t shred their documents. True, there are less now that GDPR has basically made it a requirement, but there are still some rebels who don’t follow the rules. But what we find sadder than...

  The way consumers buy from businesses is changing. Now it’s not always about what’s most convenient, or even what’s cheapest. It’s about what fits with their values, and provides the experience they need. But more than that, it’s about trust. We are in the era...

If you’ve been on social media, read the news or even watched Netflix recently, then you’ve probably heard of the ‘zero waste’ movement. If you haven’t, let us fill you in. It’s both a philosophy and a way of living that aims to reduce the human production of waste...

We talk a lot about the physical security of data in our blogs, rather than online issues (and why wouldn’t we, we’re shredders after all). But this week, we wanted to stray into the digital world. After all, more and more technologies are helping us move confidential...