Digital Spring Cleaning Just as Important as Regular Spring Cleaning

The importance of using a licensed and accredited data destruction company cannot be overstated. While many people believe that hard drives can effectively be destroyed with a hammer or water, the fact remains that these methods are not effective. As the Times Free Press noted, “Using a hammer to hit a drive only slows down a determined cybercriminal.” The data is still contained on the device, and can be readily accessed. Professional hard drive shredding by a professional, NAID accredited data destruction company is the only failsafe way of accomplishing your digital spring cleaning.

Hard drive shredding and paper shredding are not the only actions needed to properly effect digital spring cleaning. Updating passwords and enabling two-step authentication where offered are other ways of securing your digital data.

Many people are guilty of reusing passwords on multiple accounts, and for leaving passwords unchanged for months or even years. As inconvenient as it can admittedly be, regularly updating passwords is essential to maintain your digital security. And with digital spring cleaning set to become just as prevalent as regular spring cleaning, at least everyone’s passwords will be updated once a year.