Small Business Solutions: Keep Your Information Secure & Private

Staying on top of the latest tech can be a challenge. With each advancement, there comes a shift in what’s needed to meet customers’ needs which may have an impact on operational tech devices. As such, there will be a time where technology asset upgrades are necessary to survive.

When that time comes, you will need a proper IT asset disposal program to protect your small business’ information and brand image. Data breaches can still happen to IT assets that aren’t disposed of in a secure manner. As you upgrade technology assets to meet customer needs, securely disposing of older components ensures your most private company details don’t end up in the wrong hands.

WHAT MAKES IRON MOUNTAIN’S SECURE IT ASSET DISPOSITION DIFFERENT

• Secure Chain-of-Custody: Track assets as they are processed through each secure checkpoint up to the final processing and receive an auditable certificate of destruction.
• National & Global Footprint: With 3,500 trucks in the US and a global reach operating in dozens of countries across five continents, we support your needs at scale.
• Environmental Sustainability: Feel secure knowing that internationally-recognized standards that ensure compliance with industry best practices for data security, environmental compliance, and Occupational Health and Safety are upheld.
• Protect Your Brand: Protecting critical information for decades, information management is all we do. Iron Mountain is trusted by 95% of the Fortune 1000.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

• IT Asset Disposition: Earn Green by Going Green
• Retired IT Asset Disposition Checklist: A How-To Guide For Getting Started With ITAD

Shredding paper-based documents doesn’t sound that important. However, many Federal and State Laws require organizations to securely destroy confidential or personally identifiable information. So yes, there is a need to focus on securely disposing documents to help effectively manage your records.

Your small business creates documents that contain sensitive information. But what if it ends up in the wrong hands? If a breach occurs, here’s what it could mean for your small business:

• Investigations, audits, fines and sanctions
• Severe damage to your organization’s reputation
• Loss of your customer’s trust

However you choose to dispose of your documents, we have a safe and cost-effective way to rid yourself of unused paper-based documents.

Here are your secure Iron Mountain shredding options:

It’s impossible for most businesses to exist today without relying on the cloud in some form.

Whether it’s backing up active data, archiving inactive data or protecting all your data against ransomware attacks, cloud use has become the answer to many operational problems - no matter your organization’s size.

However, not all data is created or used equally and neither should the way it’s stored. With Iron Mountain’s multi-tiered data storage solutions, businesses can logically group data based on three areas - frequently used, sometimes used, and rarely used but kept “just in case.”

Here’s how a multi-tier data storage strategy can help you better manage and protect your data:

• Ransomware Protection: An air-gapped copy of your data stored offline, but that is easily recoverable via the cloud, is a secure, cost-effective way to protect against ransomware. Through physically separating your data from unsecured networks, you create a gold copy that can be verified as “clean” when recovering from a ransomware attack. With multi-factor user authentication, you also ensure only authorized users can access your data.
• Disaster Recovery: Whether it’s natural or man made, your data should be protected against all disasters. When your data is backed up, protected, and recoverable 24/7, the impact of potential business disruptions drops significantly which keeps emergency IT budgets low.
• Backup: Storing your data locally is good but what happens when an employee accidentally deletes an important file? A backup copy stored in the cloud may be your organization’s best life line. It also helps decrease the workload for IT staff who won’t have to spend hours recovering lost data.
• Archive: For most businesses, 80 percent of data is inactive and should be archived. Why get charged the same storage price for data you won’t access that often? You need a long-term data storage solution that doesn’t eat up your budget and still provides access to critical data as needed.