To avoid a similar fate as Nassau County, you need to make sure your document scanning partner utilizes a NAID-certified shredding company if your documents are to be shredded after scanning. NAID is the National Association for Information Destruction and offers a voluntary certification program to all of their member companies. Through the program, NAID members may seek certification audits for mobile and/or plant-based operations in paper or printed media, micro media, computer hard drive destruction and/or computer hard drive sanitization.
The NAID Certification Program has established a protocol for the secure destruction of paper, especially after document scanning, that helps ensure that it’s impossible for shredded documents to be put back together. Because virtually no document scanning company offers their own document destruction services, you’ll want to make sure they use a NAID-certified partner that follows this protocol to guarantee that information from your documents do not end up in the wrong hands—like the crowd at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Based on decades of experience, we recommend that you partner with a document scanning company that utilizes NAID-certified document destruction so that you can enjoy the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade—instead of fearing it.