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The Weakest Link Suppose you were driving home and you swerved off the road to avoid a deer and got your car stuck in a ditch. You call a highly-recommended towing company and they bring their most powerful tow truck with four-wheel drive and a winch with a cable that can handle a vehicle of…

As a business that generates, handles and destroys data on a regular basis, you are required to comply with the laws by protecting that sensitive information. In addition, you also need to keep up with the changes to those laws and the addition of new ones over time. 2023 is no exception when it comes…

If your business creates, stores and uses personal data of any kind, you are required to comply with multiple federal and state laws that specify how you must handle and dispose of that data. Here are a few of the essential federal laws that will affect how your business handles personal data. FACTA With the…

Sending a USPS first-class letter to another country? $1.40. Booking a one-way airline ticket from Knoxville to the other side of the world? $2,000. Your confidential records stolen and distributed internationally? Priceless. There are some things money can’t buy. And the cost of the damage caused by your confidential records ending up halfway across the…

It may feel excessive to consider outsourcing shredding when you are already outsourcing so many other things. But the reason outsourcing exists is so you and your staff can focus on your core competencies and leave the other things to the experts in each field. Outsourcing shredding works the same way. Shredding may seem like…

Howard Greenfield was an American lyricist and songwriter. He had a successful collaborative writing relationship with Neil Sedaka in the 1960s and together they wrote the massive hit single, Breaking Up is Hard to Do. When relationships don’t work well, breaking up really can be hard to do. Here are a few key reasons why…