Iron Mountain Inc., headquartered in Boston, has announced the grand opening of its "flagship" Secure Shredding facility in Jersey City, N.J.
According to Iron Mountain, the 55,000-square-foot facility offers the latest shredding technology available to help tri-state organizations manage the secure destruction and disposal of sensitive records and information and also comply with ever-changing information disposal regulations.
"Secure shredding has become an essential part of a company’s compliant records management program due to increasing regulations and consumer demands for protection of personal information," Barry Payne, senior vice president of Iron Mountain’s Secure Shredding business, says. "The addition of our Jersey City facility comes just in time to support the growing demand for our services in the New York-metropolitan market, as businesses there seek to comply with New Jersey’s new Identity Theft Protection Act and other state and federal information disposal regulations."
The Jersey City facility is capable of shredding 200 tons of paper per day and up to 48,000 tons per year, according to the company. Iron Mountain’s Secure Shredding services also will destroy other media, including x-rays, microfiche/film, computer disks, cartridges, videotapes, CDs and DVDs. Protection of sensitive materials is ensured through strict security practices and a secure chain-of-custody, according to Iron Mountain.
Iron Mountain has also announced the launch of its online shredding laws resource, available at www.ironmountain.com/shreddinglaws. The resource, which will be updated regularly, is designed to help businesses address the various state and federal statutes and regulations governing records management and disposal.
ARMA Introduces Risk Profiler Self-Assessment Tool
ARMA International has developed a tool that it says will help to uncover an organization’s potential risk for litigation resulting from e-discovery.
The Risk Profiler Self-Assessment for E-Discovery "ultimately will help records mangers, legal counsel and IT departments to better understand their readiness for e-discovery and the associated risks," according to a press release from ARMA.
The secure, online assessment guides a company’s stakeholders through a series of potential risk areas and highlights deficiencies.
Additional information, a sample report and order information are available at www.arma.org/profiler or www.arma.org/profiler/ediscovery.cfm.
iPod Stores Stolen Data
A San Francisco man has been charged with 54 criminal counts, including identity theft, grand theft, credit card fraud, forgery, auto theft, student loan application theft and possession of stolen property.
Some of the alleged stolen data was stored on an iPod in the man’s possession, according to San Francisco Police.
"This is the first time I know of that we actually got data off [an MP3 player]," Lt. Kenwade Lee tells news.com. "It’s something different now to look for."
Arizona Nonprofit Expands Operations
The Centers for Habilitation (TCH), Tempe, Ariz., recently landed a contract with the state that will triple the organization’s shredding business.
According to a report in the Arizona Republic, TCH, operating under the name Assured Security Document Destruction, will shred 2 million to 3 million pounds of documents for various state agencies under the contract, with revenue going to fund TCH programs.
UC Davis Alerts Clients of Security Breach
A stolen briefcase has resulted in the University of California Health System in Davis, Calif., sending alerts to its clients warning of a security breach, according to the Sacramento Bee.
The briefcase held documents that included client names, addresses, phone numbers and Social Security numbers.
Fifty clients who could be at risk have been notified and given information on how to avoid ID theft.
Secure Eco Shred Enters Cleveland Market
Secure Eco Shred has opened an office in downtown Cleveland.
"We’re excited to expand to the Cleveland market," Steve Kalapos, president of Secure Eco Shred, says.
"The Cleveland office’s high-speed mobile shredding truck runs on biodiesel fuel," he adds. "Not only does the truck shred faster, saving time and money, but we are also doing our part in preserving the environment by recycling the paper we shred, and by using biodiesel fuel."
Secure Eco Shred is based in Farmington, Mich., with locations in Michigan, Illinois, Connecticut and Ohio. (For more on the firm, see the profile story in the Winter 2004 issue of SDB magazine.)
CASO Acquires Texas Document Management Company
CASO Inc., based in New York City, has acquired DM2000 Inc., a document management company with a scanning and micrographic processing facility in San Antonio, Texas.
CASO provides scanning services and document management systems to customers located in New York, New Jersey, California, Texas, Puerto Rico, Pennsylvania and Nebraska.
The acquisition will allow CASO to offer greater national coverage and improve its operational efficiencies, according to the company.
In making the acquisition, CASO also notes that DM2000 provides an ideal, central location for the combined company’s online records hosting division DocumentAccess.com.
Casey McClellan, president of CASO, says, "At the national level, the San Antonio location provides CASO with a centrally located processing facility that is configured for high-volume production scanning and indexing of substantially all paper and micrographic formats ranging from standard and legal size paper, to books, wide-format engineering drawings, fiche and film." McClellan adds, "This acquisition further solidifies CASO’s position as a rapidly growing provider of diverse solutions for the paperless office."
NAID Joins Better Business Bureau
InitiativeThe National Association for Information Destruction, based in Phoenix, has joined the Council of Better Business Bureau’s (CBBB) "Security & Privacy…Made Simpler" national information protection campaign.
According to a news item posted on the NAID Web site (www.naidonline.org), the goal of the program is to educate small and medium-sized businesses on the need to protect the personal information of their clients.
Initiative sponsors also include eBay, Equifax, IBM, PayPal, Verizon Wireless, VISA and the Wall Street Journal.
NAID’s members will have access to a collateral piece customized with the association’s logo and message that they can use in their marketing efforts. The piece will also be used in the CBBB’s information protection kit.
Additional information is available at www.bbb.org/securityandprivacy/ and includes free, downloadable security and privacy toolkits for customer and employee data. The site also includes a "Horror Stories" page that is designed to allow small and medium-sized businesses owners and executives to exchange their stories regarding data security and privacy issues.
JC Data Solutions Partners with Post Associates
JC Data Solutions Inc., Dallas, has entered into a partnership agreement with Dallas-based Post Associates Inc., a provider of financial transaction processing, supplies and equipment.
As part of the agreement, Post Associates will offer its clients JC Data’s proprietary document management services and provide its clients with secure, cost-effective document archiving and destruction. JC Data expects the agreement to generate an additional $100,000 in revenue during the next year.
"The financial transaction industry is more today than ever before concerned with document destruction and managing the back-end flow of those transactions in order to free up space and comply with both state and federal regulations," Blair Post, president of Post Associates, says. "JC Data’s document management system, along with our secure document mobile cages, gives us the ability to service our customers with a reliable way to support their back-end transaction needs."
Cary Allen, CEO of JC Data Solutions, says, "Part of JC Data’s services is to provide a complete document management system to our customers and with Post Associates as a partner we can now offer document processing equipment like scan stations, document joggers, clear view bins, etc." He adds, "These offerings developed and distributed by Post Associates give our customers an organized way to control everyday document processing."
PinnacleHealth Selects Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Inc., Boston, has announced that PinnacleHealth has employed its Comprehensive Health Information Management (CHM) program and X-ray on Demand service.
PinnacleHealth, a four-hospital, nonprofit health system servicing central Pennsylvania, has transferred the management of its radiology films to Iron Mountain and implemented its X-ray on Demand service as a way to digitize historical x-rays.
Iron Mountain’s CHM program allows hospitals to consolidate and outsource their file room operations. At PinnacleHealth, x-rays previously stored across five locations are now centralized in one off-site facility managed by Iron Mountain.
Iron Mountain provides health information management services with services and products designed to help companies make the transition from paper-based to electronic filing systems. Iron Mountain offers a line of health care information services including the CHM program, X-ray on Demand, Open Shelf Records Storage and secure shredding.
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