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Safeguarding your Data, Ensuring Compliance, Protecting your Reputation
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Information Security Solutions

7 Steps to Security

  1. Assess
  2. Inventory
  3. Secure Transport
  4. Re-Inventory
  5. Degauss
  6. Data Destruction and Shredding
  7. Report
Threat Assessment

Confidential information is a vital asset of every organization and must be protected. The costs associated with the loss of private information is and can be staggering.

Secure, compliant and cost-effective destruction of your sensitive IT assets.

Customized solutions to meet the data security needs of corporate America.

Government and state legislation mandates that private or sensitive information be safeguarded from unauthorized access. Failure to comply with the acts listed below exposes your company to the risk of criminal and civil prosecution.

  • Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA)
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability act (HIPAA)
  • US Economic Espionage Act (EEA)
  • Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA)
  • Georgia State Bill 475
  • Sarbranes-Oxley (SOX)

Some of the Reasons our Services are Critical to your Organization

A typical U.S. organization loses about 6 percent of its annual revenue to fraud... within the context of the U.S. gross domestic product for 2004, that amounts to roughly $660 Billion Dollars.

(Association of Certified Fraud Examiners)
 70 percent of all identity thefts start with the theft of personal data from a company by an employee.

Among the ten million cases of identity theft in 2003, the most common crime scene was the workplace.

(Kiplinger's Personal Finance 2004)
 Identity theft is one of the nation's fastest growing crimes.

(NAID)

U.S. Managers spend an average of 4 weeks per year searching for or waiting on misfiled, mislabeled, untracked, lost or stolen data.

(Caudra Associates)

Information to Protect and Items to Destroy

Hard Drives
Tapes
CDs
Microfilm
Backup tapes/disks
ID Badges
PHI-Private Health Information
Client Records
Videos
 Credit Cards
Mainframe Platters
X-Ray Film
Financial Records
R&D Information
Confidential Memos
Payroll Information
Profit & Loss Statements
Prescription Information
 Contracts
Credit Reports
Tax Returns
Merger & Acquisition
Information
Client Lists
Corporate Strategies
Depositions
And more...

Areas to Consider/Veritcal Markets

Ask...

Do you presently have a data destruction policy in place?

Would you know if a single tape/cd or other information storage device was stolen or lost?

Do they understand the true Corporate exposure of lost or stolen information?

If their present policies are in alignment with compliancy.

Look For...

Poor or undefined processes.

Stored Items that by law, meet their maturity and need to be destroyed.

Add-on services such as computer and IT asset disposal

Vertical Markets

Healthcare
Banking and Finance
Insurance
IT/Data Centers
Pharmaceutical
State, Local and Federal
Government
Education
Manufacturing

Pricing Guide

Code Red: Receive client media at our facility and a piece count is performed. A report will be generated showing the date, time, type of media, weight, serial number and quantity. The media will then be shredded utilizing our double grind process. A certificate of destruction and recycling will be issued.

Code Orange: Receive client media at our facility and a piece count is performed. A report will be generated showing the date, time, type of media, weight, and quantity. The media will then be shredded utilizing our double grind process. A certificate of destruction and recycling will be issued.

Code Yellow: Receive client media at our facility and a piece count is performed. A report will be generated showing the date, time, type of media, and quantity of items destroyed. The media will then be shredded utilizing our double grind process. A certificate of destruction and recycling will be issued.

Frequently Asked Questions about our Information Security Solutions

The Hastings Group 100 Mountain Court · Hackettstown, NJ 07840-4001
Tel: 908-813-0067 · Fax: 908-813-0148 · bunavage@hastingsgroup.net