How safe is your offline data?

Yesterday morning the business residents of Woolloongabba (where our office lives), were inundated with a paper flood.

I didn’t witness the event, but drove in not long after, to a bunch of council workers clearing a road covered in paper. Logan Road was a wash with someone’s documents.

Being the curious type I picked up a few of the stragglers.

It seems that most likely a document destruction company just let down one of their customers.

The documents belonged to Verosol Pty Ltd, and included invoice sumamries, statements, and many accounting reports incluEditding production costs and other internal business information.

All of the documents I found were prior to 2006, but even so, I am pretty sure when Verosol consigned them to be destroyed (or stored) they weren’t expecting all and sundry to find them.

How safe is your business data?

Do you run Quality Assurance on things that have ‘left the building’ or do you assume everything is all good.

The same is true with personal documents and mail. Shredders are a handy item to have an inexpensive. Remember – one persons trash is another persons treasure.

It isn’t just online data you need to protect.

Well that is what Ireckon!

lots of numbers and things

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