MEMBER News: Allegheny Shredders New Sales Team
For immediate release: Allegheny Shredders New Sales Team As many of you may have already heard, Evelyn Jefferson aka Shredder Mom is retiring from her position of VP sales at Allegheny Shredders after 30 wonderful years. Evelyn has been a pillar in the document destruction industry and will be missed by Allegheny and the shredding […]
Read more »New Certification Requirement Linked to GDPR/CCPA Compliance
Effective January 1, 2020, NAID AAA Certification will require policies and procedures to be updated to address requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) wherein service providers are required to respond to Data Subject requests. Asked why i-SIGMA is requiring all NAID AAA Certified service providers to […]
Read more »Privacy Commissioner Shares Lessons Learned After One Year of Mandatory Breach Reporting
On November 1 of last year, Canadian businesses became subject to new mandatory breach reporting regulations under Canada’s federal private sector privacy law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). After a year in action, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada weighed in on observations he has noticed within the year. The highlights of […]
Read more »Analyzing Survey Results to Determine Membership Needs
The PRISM International Divisional Leadership Committee recently propositioned a survey that sought member feedback in determining the resource and educational needs of members. The results have been recorded and analyzed, and the committee will now take these results to help plan and implement strategies that best serve the membership. This will help in the preparation […]
Read more »Shred School is for the Hungry
Shred School 2019 wrapped up earlier this month with its final stop in Portland. While every attendee from all three destinations stated they would consider attending again, they also all had one thing in common that Kelly Martinez, Director of Marketing & Communications for i-SIGMA and Shred School Trainer claims any future attendee would probably […]
Read more »Information Disposition Textbook: Getting Clients to Take You Seriously
Though i-SIGMA continues to produce new marketing tools like the recently released Universally Compliant Service Provider Contract, members are reminded they should continue to take advantage of those that came before. Only three years ago, NAID introduced the first and only textbook on data destruction, examining it in theory and practice from a wide range […]
Read more »ITADs and Shredders Note: Conditions Continue to Favor a Data Security Focus
The premise of my last blog was that there is a big benefit to developing your revenue model based on data security services (i.e., consistent revenue). I explained how and why the current downturn in commodity pricing presents a unique opportunity for reposition of your firm as a data-security service, e.g., when commodity prices are […]
Read more »MEMBER News: VECOPLAN, LLC Hosts Annual Customer Support Summit
Parts & Service Teams from Vecoplan in the US and Germany Attend ARCHDALE, NC / October 16, 2019 —– The Parts & Service Department management teams from Vecoplan LLC in the US and Vecoplan AG in Germany, held two days of meetings on October 8 & 9 in Archdale and Greensboro, NC. The focus was […]
Read more »“Prepare for” an Audit or “We are Ready” for an Audit – Big Difference!
Early Monday morning an email from the Compliance Officer (CO) of a large client organization has been received by the Operations Manager (OM). Not the ideal way to start the week. Planning to visit the record and data center on Wednesday, he requests the OM suggest a convenient time. There is no “rule” that a […]
Read more »RIMPA Live Concludes 2019 i-SIGMA Outreach
The association will close out another year of strong outreach with an appearance by i-SIGMA CEO Bob Johnson at this month’s RIMPA Live Conference and Expo in Melbourne, Australia. “The RIMPA event hosts hundreds of high-profile information managers hungry for information on data protection and compliance,” said Johnson, “and those attendees influence thousands of others […]
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