Shredding On Site

Document security is an essential element of doing business. When considering a mobile paper shredding service you should ask yourself a few questions to determine if it may be better to buy a paper shredder.

How much will a full year of mobile shredding cost you? The cost of a mobile shredding service will increase & never go away. With the rising cost of fuel and surcharges you could easily pay for a paper shredder very quickly.

Do you know the actual person shredding your documents and are they trustworthy? While most companies have strong reputations you have opened yourself up to a security risk by allowing papers to be taken off site.

Who has access to the paper bins at your office? If documents have confidential information, how secure are they now?

If the information is not shredded on site, where does it go and who else gets to see it?

No matter which service takes your documents, you are ultimately responsible for all the information.

Secure Filing Cabinet

Your office has plenty of paper records stacked in boxes, in desks and you simply don't have the time to scan and digitally archive each and every document. It's time to itemized those vital records and put together a storage plan, buy a filing cabinet and protect the assets that are key to keeping your business going strong in a safe and secure cabinet.

No matter what size your business is, it's important to be able to protect important business papers from fire, flood, theft, etc. You've got several options to choose from including FireKing, Schwab Corp. and many others including Sentry to offer both security and fireproof storage protection.

All fire file cabinets should carry the UL fire-resistance rating for 1-hour, if you need more protection you can also add an impact rating or bump up to a 2-hour fire file for maximum protection. Typically if you are located in a city you will only need the 1-hour rating, 2-hour ratings are certainly more important to rural areas.

Always keep in mind that sensitive internal documents and customer records may need to be shredded on site or with a business-class paper shreddder. Proper document destruction can prevent your business from being liable for lost or stolen records which can be quite damaging to your reputation.

Computer Water Damage

While many computer users take steps to protect digital data from fire damage it is important to remember that water damage can cause severe problems to circuit boards as well as data.

Today there are computer hardware manufacturers that engineer computer hard drives and backup systems that are waterproof and fire safe. It's best to research your options and determine how much data you need to store as well as if your data storage needs will grow in the future.

For more information you can visit www.hddfiresafe.com

Fujitsu Hard Drives Power ioSafe Fireproof Waterproof

In big IT industry news Fujitsu's mobile HDDs, with up to 320GB(1) capacity, are available in the ioSafe 3.5 Pilot and 3.5 Squadron series, offering the industry a high performance and expanded capacity drive with a disaster-protected guarantee.

The ioSafe 3.5 series certifies fire safe protection to 1,400 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 minutes (per the ASTM E119 standard) and waterproof protection from fresh or salt water damage for full immersion at depths up to five feet for 24 hours. ioSafe adds a patented ruggedized casing to the Fujitsu 2.5-inch drive, which can then be deployed and used exactly like any other industry standard 3.5-inch SATA HDD, but with the added capability of disaster protection.

These rugged hard drives set the bar very high and offer the most disaster protection per dollar of any single backup system or solution available.

Sentry Safe and Schwab Corp

The world leader in consumer and small business fire safes and file cabinets, Sentry Safe, has recently acquired Schwab Corporation. Since 1872 Schwab Corp. has been the most trusted name in fireproof safes and filing cabinets for business and commercial use.

We are excited to be able to soon be offering our business clients new products and innovations to further protect vital business documents, records, computer backup and more. As soon as we have more information available about Sentry Safe and new product offerings we will be posting updates here and on our websites.

To read the official press release you can click here: http://www.sentrysafe.com/content/news.aspx

Home Media Server

Redefining Entertainment, Photo Sharing and Digital Asset Storage
File servers and media servers have evolved on many levels and made their way into the homes of hundreds of thousands if not millions of homes. Sharing those favorite digital photos and images with family and friends has never been easier thanks to the drop in price and marketing of home media servers as a standard part of the home entertainment theater and suite.

One of the best ways to describe the benefits of this new movement toward media servers is to share a story of a my friend, his wife and their new baby boy. Like all parents, taking photos at the hospital, baby's first day at home, baby's first tooth, and each and every stage of life has now become the standard. [insert home media server] Sharing these wonderful moments with friends and family that don't live nearby is now easier than ever with the simple addition of a file server sitting next to the DVD player. With a wide variety of manufacturers selling these systems you can easily add a 4 TB server to your list of gadgets and holiday wish list.

For those wanting to preserve those digital family photos, videos and music from fire and water damage you may opt to purchase fireproof hard drives to install inside your server or even buy a home media server that already has fire safe disks standard. No matter if you bundle a Drobo or Netgear ReadyNAS with internal fireproof drives you can rest assured that precious family memories.

To learn more about fireproof servers, network storage and USB systems you can visit www.hddfiresafe.com or www.iosafe.com

Meilink Safe

For well over a century Meilink high security safes have provided affordable and reliable protection from fire and theft. For businesses that need the best protection for assets that top the scales in the the tens and hundreds of thousands-of-dollars, these safes are engineered to be the strongest that money can buy.

Even with the discontinued production of the TRTL-60x6 Six-sided tool and torch resistant protection (60 minutes or 1 hour security). Meilink continues to be the world leader as a safe manufacturer of the TL-30, TL-30x6 and TL-15 torch and tool resistant safes. These high security safes come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and features to fit into different spaces within your business or home.

As all businesses each have their own unique requirements for high security safes our safe specialists and consultants work with you to determine which high security safes will best fit your storage and physical security needs.

What is the TL Rating?
UL TL Rating: The safe must be meet specific construction requirements including thickness of the steel on all sides. The safe is also tested and UL rated to prevent access to contents by physical attack using specific tools including grinders, pick axe, sledge hammer, drills, and saws for a specified period. TL-15 means it passed a 15-man-minute test. TL-30 means it passed a 30-man-minute test. TL-30x6 means it must pass additional tests and added construction requirements on all six sides.

To learn more about these burglary rated fire safes you can visit www.klsecurity.com