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SEATTLE, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- BECU, Washington's largest credit union, is launching a community initiative to help prevent identify theft, offering educational tips plus paper-shredding, hard drive erasure and secure computer recycling services at select Puget Sound locations on Saturday, October 23rd from 10 am - 1 pm. The events are free of charge and open to everyone. Event details include: BECU Tukwila Financial Center parking lot, 12770 Gateway Dr.Paper shredding, hard drive...

Data Killers Launches New Trucks and Locations Washington, DC (PRWEB) October 19, 2010 Data Killersis now nationwide with three new locations in Chicago, Sacramento and Dallas in addition to the Washington D.C. headquarters. Each location has full mobile shredding services which can shred a variety of items including hard drives, tapes, products, equipment and military gear. "Our new mobile shredding trucks each contain powerful four-shaft shredders with several screen sizes to control...

JOENSUU, Finland, April 26, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Blancco, the global leader in data erasure and end-of-lifecycle solutions, today announced that Sims Recycling Solutions ensures assets are data safe before they are recycled or refurbished by embedding Blancco's data erasure software into its proprietary online system, WebView. With 37 sites around the world, Sims Recycling Solutions is a global leader in electrical and electronics recovery and recycling. In 2009 alone, Sims...

SEATTLE and ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Datacastle, a market leader for business resiliency solutions for the mobile workforce, announced today that Sequestered Solutions Alaska (SSA) has selected Datacastle RED to power the new government data protection service DataCenter Vault. A leading data hosting service provider in Alaska, SSA serves federal and state government agencies with secure, remote data hosting and data protection services from its Homeland Security...

ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Asset Recovery Corporation, a leader in environmentally-sound IT asset disposal solutions, announced today that it has been certified by the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID) for computer hard drive sanitization and destruction. Both its plant-based and mobile solutions received certification. With confidential data appearing on virtually every new electronic device, the need to destroy information has grown beyond mere paper...

NAPERVILLE, Ill., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- OfficeMax®, a leading provider of office supplies and services, and Shred-it, a world-leading information security company, today announced a joint partnership to provide a new, convenient secure document destruction service to consumers and small businesses alike. Beginning in January, OfficeMax will offer the Shred-it document destruction program at nearly all of the company's more than 1,000 stores nationwide as part of its...

ATLANTA, Georgia, November 16 /PRNewswire/ -- When sensitive Lockheed Martin missile data was found on eBay-listed computers earlier this year, companies around the world began to rethink how they retire information technology (IT) assets. In fact, in 2008 alone, more records were breached than the previous four years combined,[i] while the cost per data breach rose to over $6.6 million, up from $4.7 million in 2006.[ii] The increasing risk of data breaches, coupled with the need for...

JOENSUU, Finland, October 21 /PRNewswire/ -- - New Release Addresses Data Erasure Needs for Growing Netbook Market and Green Data Centre Requirements Blancco, the global leader in data erasure and end-of-lifecycle solutions, today announced support of solid state drive (SSD) erasure within its family of certified data erasure products. The newly released software positions Blancco to address current and future data security and disk wipe requirements for the increasingly...

JOENSUU, Finland, September 21 /PRNewswire/ -- - Disk Wipe Software First in its Category Slated for Evaluation Assurance Level 3+ Blancco, the global leader in data erasure and end-of-lifecycle solutions, today announced that its certified data erasure products are on track to earn Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 3+, augmented with ALC_FLR.3. This certification assures customers that the products have gone through a rigorous analysis and testing process and...

ATLANTA, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Blancco, the global leader in data erasure and end-of-lifecycle solutions, today announced support for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines for firmware-based erasure of ATA and SCSI drives. With its new and enhanced client erasure software, Blancco takes the NIST-recommended guidelines a step further by uniting them with a software overwriting option that verifies complete erasure - a level of support not found in other...