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Securing confidential documents is more than just making sure that the Internet is free from your company’s non-public information. It is also about ensuring you protect your customer’s information.

Last week, I was taking my trash to the outside trash bin when I discovered hundreds of service agreements for consumer cellular service scattered about the trash area. Upon closer examination, the paperwork appeared to be from a local cellular reseller that has a store in the same business park of my office. I looked closer and discovered that each of these service agreements (I counted 500 in all) had customers’ personal information on them, including their full social security number, date of birth, home phone number, address, and driver’s license number. More than enough personal information for a criminal to steal someone’s identify. I scanned one of these in for you to see bb4a8662.pdf (I blacked out all personal information so to not have the person’s identity stolen. But trust me, none of it was blacked out sitting in the open parking lot of my office complex!)

Utilizing basic common sense and shredding these documents can prevent people’s identities from being stolen. What is more, it might save your company from costly legal battles and the embarrassment of public scrutiny if this happened to you!