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1/5/2007 -
Contact
Michael Milillo at 516-431-5484
Or Sean Fredricks at 212-219-8999
Code Shred Responds to Intensifying Identity Theft Pressure
With Addition of Fourth High-Volume Truck
To Mobile Document Destruction Fleet
New York, NY – With reports of identity theft multiplying even among high-visibility corporations, the need for speedy, convenient and secure privacy protection is experiencing exponential growth. Professional document destruction services are an important component of commercial privacy insurance, and accessing them just got easier.
Code Shred, a growing force in secure document destruction in downtown New York, has added to its fleet a ShredTech 35GT Mobile Unit, which can accommodate ten tons of paper. This doubles the service capacity of their other trucks.
“We’re very pleased to be able to offer the timely convenience of our high-volume mobile unit for our corporate customers whose security policies require that documents never leave their premises,” says Code Shred president Michael Milillo.
For many companies who collect and store sensitive data as part of their daily routines, recent incidents of computer thefts and disappearances, online database compromise and simple human error have once again brought internal security issues to the fore.
Though legislation such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Economic Espionage Act (EEA) of 1996, the Gramm-Leach-Billey Act of 1999 (GLB), and the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) of 2003 have been passed to help protect businesses and their clients from identity theft and its resulting fraud, a high level of vigilance and a sound, proactive security policy is what will put some teeth into this legislation, according to Milillo.
“Only by establishing and enforcing strong, practical internal security measures will businesses be able to protect their clients from fraud and themselves from massive liability suits,” posits the young entrepreneur from his Long Island corporate headquarters.
One element of such a policy is the employment of professional document destruction and disposal services that include shredding and recycling of paper documents. Large concerns that generate huge volumes of paper and require end-to-end visual confirmation usually use on-site shredding services.
Mobile shredding brings the service to the customer in the form of large trucks with industrial capacity shredding machines on board. This method works well for companies whose documents are of a more sensitive nature, and whose provenance (chain of handling) must be observable by an authorized customer representative. The shredding usually occurs on a pre-scheduled basis under this option.
On-site shredding is preferred by large firms uncomfortable with allowing any of their documents to leave their physical premises. It’s also an excellent solution for those whose paper volume is consistently high, requiring ongoing daily, weekly or monthly document destruction. It requires dedicated floor space for the equipment, which is provided free of charge by Code Shred.
Truly professional document demolition firms offer accountability and peace of mind to their clients in the form of an official Certificate of Document Destruction for their fully processed papers. The certificate serves as official confirmation of compliance with privacy laws. These professional firms also make it as quick and convenient as possible for customers to use their services, including offering a flexible schedule, versatile options as described above, and the added security of seeing the shredded paper byproduct to its final destination at a professionally run recycling facility.
“Not only does recycling at a professional recycling center help assure final security by making sure the documents can never practicably be read again, it also helps our environment by replacing virgin timber with post-consumer waste in the manufacture of paper goods,” observes Sean Fredricks, Vice President of Sales at Code Shred.
The two-year old company is proud of its new high-volume mobile unit, believing that it represents a new standard in processing speed and volume, saving their customers time and money. The truck holds 12,000 lbs. of paper, and its burly shredder can shred 8,000 lbs. of paper per hour—that’s the equivalent of ten banker’s boxes every three minutes.
The truck, lately seen at some of New York’s most well known businesses, automatically picks up a bin that holds the content of ten standard boxes and dumps it into the shredder’s hungry maw. Two truck-mounted cameras feed images of the process to an outside monitor, allowing customers to view it all from curbside and providing them the peace of mind of a job securely completed.
Those interested in learning more about Code Shred may visit the company’s website at www.codeshred.com.
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INTERVIEW SOURCE: Michael Milillo is available for interviews about the importance of document security in today’s world of rampant identity theft, corporate compliance with HIPAA and other government security requirements, and appropriate steps any size business can take to make its daily operations more information secure.
IMAGE SOURCE: A high resolution digital file of the company’s logo and the truck image above are available upon request — simply reply to this post.
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