Businesses deal with large volumes of documents, records, and other confidential information. Over time, maintaining and managing these documents can become overwhelming.

Here are five benefits the businesses can derive from professional data shredding services.

Compliance with data protection laws: The UAE’s first Federal Data Protection Law No. 45 of 2021, effective from January 2022, stipulates that companies need to be extremely cautious in processing personal data. Professional data shredding service providers can help you comply with privacy and data protection laws.

Enhanced data security:

According to global reports, UAE recorded 8.99 million data breach cases in 2021. Data breaches are becoming common, and companies need to protect themselves and their employees from possible information breaches, both internal and external. Secure shredding service providers can advise on the steps to improve your data security processes and systems to stay protected.

Shredding and Recycling:

Although businesses can choose to do all shredding in-house, it often leads to massive landfill contents that can damage the environment. Professional agencies provide secure shredding services coupled with recycling options at an affordable cost. Data shredding service providers ensure that all shredded materials are recycled and processed into paper, energy, or other resources.

Limited liability:

Companies are held liable for all personal data they handle regularly. The cost of hiring professional data destruction services to prevent a data breach is merely a fraction of the cost the companies can be held liable for in the event of a data breach. Trusting a professional, secure shredding service provider is the best bet for businesses to limit their liability. Their processes are compliant with the Federal Data Protection Law. They provide you with a Certificate of Destruction guaranteeing the complete destruction of all items. A Certificate of Destruction (CoD) is an audit document that confirms that all confidential data on paper or stored on hard drives, tapes, SSDs, or other storage media has been successfully destroyed.

Safeguarding company reputation:

Data breaches can have far-reaching consequences extending beyond the financial losses. A Forbes Insight report stated that 46% of organizations had suffered reputational damage resulting from a data breach, and 19% of organizations suffered reputation and brand damage caused by a third-party security breach. Professional data shredding service providers help safeguard your company’s reputation through trustworthy and secure on-site data destruction services following a strict chain-of-custody process that applies from the time your information leaves your place of business until the time it comes out to the other end of the industrial-strength shredders inside of mobile shredding trucks.

Outsourcing your data shredding to EndoShred gives you the advantage of assured secure data collection and on-site data destruction and shredding maintaining a tight chain of custody throughout the process. We provide secure shredding services for everything including documents, electronic media like hard drives, media tapes, CDs/DVDs, etc., and other items like credit/debit cards, uniforms, promotional merchandise, etc.

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