document destruction, paper shredding, paper scanning services and electronic document imaging services for document management and storage systems in LA County, CA and Orange County, CA and San Diego County, California

All business records have a shelf life whether they are in physical or electronic format.

Old records no longer needed must be retired from use by a controlled process of document shredding and/or destruction. It is important that physical records be destroyed by paper shredding. Electronic records must be destroyed by disk degaussing and formatting if on dynamic disks - or records must by shredded if on CD / compact disks. This process has four phases that must occur within a secure environment so breaches in confidentiality through data theft do not occur. The 4 phases that define how to destroy documents are:

Careful and verified documentation of physical business records and electronic documents to be destroyed
The actual destruction of these documents through paper or CD shredding and electronic erasing of dynamic disk files
Recording what records were destroyed, when they were destroyed, and who destroyed them
Providing a Certificate of Destruction to our client to support any future proof of compliancy

Destruction of documents that have passed the end of their useful life is the final phase of "commercial grade" document management systems. Completing this important step insures that important historical data that might compromise your competitive advantage in the wrong hands - is no longer retrievable. It also fulfills any Federal confidentiality regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, aka SarBox or SOX and Gramm-Leach-Bliley, aka GLBA. Finally, it also defines a termination point for your administrative and records keeping business processes.