There is confidential information that most people keep in their files.
The most secure way to keep a confidential file is to store them on their personal laptop or desktop computers.
To further secure this confidential information from the eyes of other people, a password is needed before the computer can be opened.
This confidential information is stored on the hard drive of the computer.
But the hard drive is like a person.
It is susceptible to diseases caused by virus.
When a virus attacks the hard drive, the life of the hard drive ends.
However, there are ways by which any files on the hard drive that can be retrieved.
There are software programs for retrieving the files.
That is the reason why the law provides that all companies and agencies with files containing confidential information should secure these files and properly destroy them.
The law protects all consumers from being victims of consumer fraud.
Confidential shredding is a method of destroying any personal or confidential information of persons.
It employs different process.
Document shredding is one way of destroying personal or confidential information.
However, when the information is filed in an electronic media unit, the shredding should use metal shredders.
Metal shredder or better known as scrap metal shredder, is a kind of machine that reduces the scrap metal to small pieces. T
here are different models, sizes and variations of metal scrap shredder.
Scrap metal shredder has many designs to fit every need of confidential shredding.
The designs vary in the type of cutting system used by the metal shredder.
For light scrap materials, a single-shaft cutting system is sufficient.
However, when the metal scrap is medium to heavy, more shaft cutting system is necessary.
Confidential shredding of hard drives and other electronic media needs two or more shafts to secure the proper disposal.