Infoshred, LLC

Products And Services

• Secure On-Site Document Destruction

  ON-Site Shredding, also known as Mobile Destruction, is for customers who prefer their material be shredded prior to being removed from their facility. Your material is transported in locked containers from your office to our Mobile Shred Truck waiting right outside. Our truck has a shredding unit right inside the truck and your material is shredded on the spot. Your shredded material is then returned to our secure facility in East Windsor, CT. All Infoshred trucks are equipped with a GPS vehicle tracking system, which allows us to locate your material across Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island at any time in the transportation process. Once at our plant, we re-shred the material, bale it and send to a paper recycling facility where it is pulped in preparation for paper making. Our entire facility is monitored by a Sonitrol alarm system and closed circuit video equipment. Infoshred offers confidential document shredding throughout Southern New England including Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Detailed Step by Step Process: - Uniformed Infoshred drivers will arrive at the customer site with an Infoshred mobile shredding truck. - Drivers must check in at customer site with an authorized contact person. Drivers will follow each customer’s check in policies. - Drivers will escort the full, locked containers from the customer location to the mobile shredding truck. - Before it is destroyed, all material must be attended by a company employee or physically secured from unauthorized access while in the custody of the Infoshred security professional. - All materials must be securely locked during the transfer from customer’s facility to destruction vehicle to prevent loss from wind or other atmospheric conditions. - All material will remain in a closed locked container prior to shredding. - If applicable the shredding operator will weigh all material with a portable scale. - Shredding operators will shred all materials in the containers. - The operator will return the container to the customer and have the customer sign a material pickup slip. - At this stage the material will be shredded by pierce and tear method into 5/8 inch by random length crosscut particles and returned to Infoshred’s secured facility in East Windsor, CT. The material is re-shredded into 5/8 inch by 5/8 inch crosscut The material is then baled and recycled. - A 6-month digital video history of the processing is kept on record. Customers can request video at any time. - Infoshred is the only vendor in Connecticut to be certified by NAID for secure Off-site Document Shredding and On-site Document Destruction, Micro Media Disintegration, Computer Hard Drive and Non-Paper media destruction

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• Secure Off-Site Document Shredding

  OFF-Site Shredding, also known as Plant Based Destruction, is for customers who prefer their material be shredded at our secure facility. Your material is transported by our trained personnel in locked containers or closed boxes from your office to our Truck waiting right outside. Your material is loaded into our trucks, locked and then returned to our secure facility in East Windsor, CT. All Infoshred trucks are equipped with a GPS vehicle tracking system, which allows us to locate your material across Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island at any time in the transportation process. Once at our plant, we shred the material and boxes, bale it and send to a paper recycling facility where it is pulped in preparation for paper making. Our entire facility is monitored by a Sonitrol alarm system and closed circuit video equipment. Infoshred offers confidential document shredding throughout Southern New England including Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Detailed Step by Step Process: - Locking containers and two keys are delivered to the customer site. - Infoshred will respond to all emergency requests on an average of 24 hours. - Uniformed Infoshred Drivers will arrive at the customer site with an Infoshred truck. - Drivers must check in at customer site with an authorized contact person. Following each customer’s check in policies. - Driver will remove the full, locked security containers from the customer site and replace them with an empty container. - Before it is destroyed, all material must be attended by a company employee or physically secured from unauthorized access while in the custody of the Infoshred security professional. - All materials must be contained during the transfer from customer’s facility to destruction vehicle to prevent loss from wind or other atmospheric conditions. - The driver will have the customer sign a material pick up slip. - The material is always contained in a locked truck. Infoshred’s trucks lock automatically eliminating any human error. - Infoshred trucks are equipped with Babaco alarm systems. The Babaco system is designed to prevent theft of the vehicle with an audible alarm and engine-disabling device. The system also alerts the driver if they attempt to operate the vehicle without securing the box. All of Infoshred’s trucks are equipped with the StreetEagle Vehicle Tracking System. StreetEagle allows Infoshred to identify the location of your material at any time in the transportation process. Reports can be generated showing all relevant information. The material will be returned to Infoshred’s secured processing plant in East Windsor, CT and shredded into 1.5 inch x 5/8 inch cross cut particle by our AMS 15000 Magnum series crosscut shredder. The material is then baled and recycled. If microfilm is being destroyed it will be disintegrated into 3/8 square particle by our SEM Disintegrator and sent to the local trash-to energy plant. All other non-paper media will be shredded on our AMS 7500 product destruction machine and recycled or sent to the local trash-to energy plant. 99.3% of all material processed at Infoshred is recycled. All container service material is shredded within 24 hours. A 6-month digital video history of the processing is kept on record. Customers can request video at any time. Infoshred is the only vendor in New England to be certified by NAID for secure Off-site Document Shredding, On-site Document Shredding, and Media Disintegration.

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• Residential Shredding

  Residential Pick-up for Document Shredding Have your personal documents been taking over the free space in your home? Have you moved all your business documents to your home office? Are you cleaning out your loved ones’ personal files? INFOSHRED can help you! We offer Shredding for Residential customers: We pick up your documents and shred them at our secure facility.

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• Customer Drop Off Center

  Infoshred makes it easy to accommodate customers that may have realized that they need to shred at the last second and cannot wait for a scheduled pick-up. Click the link to view our drop-off hours. Please book at an appointment at least 24 hours prior.

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  Seal n’ Shred Bags

  Check Out Our Bundles! Our Seal n’ Shred bags are great for your junk mail, tax returns, old checks or any outdated sensitive paper documents. This is non-witnessed drop off service. Certificate of Destruction provided on the confirmation at checkout and on the emailed receipt. Only available for sale in CT. Click the link to see Seal n' Shred Bag pricing. ALL SALES FINAL. To purchase more than 5 bags, please contact our Customer Service Team. How do I return my bag? 1. Return the bag to our facility without an appointment to 3 Craftsman Rd. East Windsor, CT 06088 Monday – Friday 9:00am-4:00pm. 2. Return to a local Community Shred Event. Check out our schedule to find a location and time that works for your schedule. Shred Event Calendar. 3. Schedule a residential pickup. Infoshred will pickup your filled bag from your home for a $150 transportation fee (price covers within a 30-mile radius from East Windsor). Price subject to change if not within the 30-mile radius. Please Note: All bags must be staged, prior to arrival, in driveway or in garage. Infoshred’s Team will not enter a residence. More Great Suggested Uses: - Collect from elderly relatives in assisted living facilities - Collect from your college students at the end of school year - Realtors can provide them to local home purchasers or sellers to clean out - Lawyers can provide them to their clients - Accountants can provide them at tax time - A business with infrequent small shredding needs - Looking for a great fundraiser for your school or charity? - Seal n’ Shred bag sales make a great way to raise money! See details.

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  Shred Events

  Paper only, no media. Paperclips and binder clips are okay but no binders, metal, etc. Please note that most events limit to 2 bags or boxes of material. Also, some events do not allow businesses or non-members. Click the link for information on upcoming events.

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• Not For Profit / School / Club Fundraising

  Interested in organizing a fundraiser for your sports team, club or group? Selling Shred Bags is a great way of raising money. To find out more complete the form on the right and we will contact you to discuss and plan your event. ONLY AVAILABLE IN CT. Click the link for more information about fundraising.

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  Records Storage

  - Are boxes of files taking over your office space? - Is your customer service suffering due to lost or hard-to-find files? - Are you paying for an expensive storage unit to store old files? - Are your employees having trouble navigating an over-filled, unorganized storage unit? - Can you ensure the privacy of the documents you store? - Is your record keeping practices in compliance with the legal requirements of your industry We specialize in providing highly affordable, state-of-the-art, service-oriented Records Management. Our approach to the document storage process mirrors our approach to the Shredding Industry: a high degree of care and attention with service as our primary goal. We offer the same computerized access, retrieval, and delivery options that the “big guys” offer – with the individualized support that you can only get from a company where you aren’t “just a number”. Infoshred Records Storage is a secure, clean, and ECONOMICAL alternative for storing and managing business records, healthcare records, and valuable hard copy paper materials. When you let Infoshred handle your records, you eliminate the overhead cost and administrative headaches of managing your inactive documents.

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  e-Recycling

  In the US, over 2.9 million tons of e-waste (electronics) are disposed of each year with only 20% ending up recycled according to the EPA guidelines. Unfortunately, the rest usually ends up in landfills. Combine that with the fact that the demand for new electronic devices is rapidly increasing—more than 300 million computers and 2 billion smartphones were manufactured in 2014, though the rare and precious metals necessary to manufacture these devices is in limited supply. Managing e-scrap responsibly has many benefits for the environment, worker safety, the economy and the bottom line. With Infoshred, everything is recycled…. we disassemble and separate materials specifically for e-Recycling, hazardous materials are separated and sent to licensed facilities which properly handle that type of waste. Why e-Recycle with Infoshred? Permit #04701232-CGP-FG - Computer Recycling - On-site Pick Up and Haul Away - HIPAA Data Destruction - Precious Metal Recycling - Proper Disposal - Proper Handling - Confidentiality - Environmentally Safe - Asset Tag Removal - Landfill Free Types of Electronics Equipment We Accept (Charges vary depending on items and volume) Click HERE for a quote today! - PCs - Laptops - Netbooks - Notebooks - Tablets - Servers/Server Racks - Network Equipment - Test Equipment - Docking Stations - Memory Chips - Circuit Cards - Mice & Keyboards - LCD Monitors - Printers/Retail Printers - Camcorders - Bar Code Scanners - Fax Machines - Audio Video Equipment - New/Used Toner - Telephones & Systems - Medical Equipment Metals - Power Supplies - UPS Battery Backup - POS Equipment - Power Cords - Projectors - Cameras - Laboratory Equipment - CD/DVD/VHS Players - Dental Equipment - GPS Devices - Precious Metals - Special Conditions and Exceptions - CRT Monitors (*Additional Charge to Client*) - Cable and much more… - We do NOT recycle Ballasts containing PCB’s - We do NOT recycle Fluorescent Bulbs

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• Secure ITAD

  Infoshred will work with you to recycle your electronics and recoup value when available. This includes conducting an inventory, physically destroying HDDs and SSDs and issuing a Certificate of Destruction and then finally issuing you a summary of the value of your collected inventory. Don’t let your refreshed or replaced electronics end up in a landfill, or the data contained within lost to a security breach, contact Infoshred today!

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  Hard Drive Destruction

  In today’s technological age, more information is being stored electronically on hard drives than ever before. Making sure that electronic data is destroyed and is unreadable upon completion of its life cycle is an important component to any information security program. Infoshred provides a confidential hard drive destruction service to physically destroy all information stored electronically. Infoshred can process hard drives that are contained in computer towers or hard drives that have already been removed from a computer or server. Infoshred applies the same secure procedures to Hard-Drive Destruction that we do to our hard copy paper shredding services: - Uniformed Infoshred Drivers will arrive at the customer site with an Infoshred truck. - Before it is destroyed, hard drives must be attended by a company employee or physically secured from unauthorized access while in the custody of the Infoshred security professional. - The Infoshred driver will verify hard drive physical count prior to obtaining customer signature and record number of hard drives on sales order. - The material scheduled for destruction is always contained in a locked truck. Infoshred’s trucks lock automatically eliminating any human error and are equipped with Babaco alarm systems and StreetEagle Vehicle Tracking Systems. - Upon return to our facility the hard drive serial numbers will be scanned, re-verifying the count. A log of the serial numbers shall be kept on-file at Infoshred and a copy provided to the customer. - All hard drives shall be physically destroyed via shredding by an Amerishred AMS 7500 shredder. - A certificate of hard drive destruction shall be provided to the customer.

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• Solid State Drive Destruction

  Solid State Drives (SSDs) are different from Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) because they have microchips that DO NOT get shredded with standard shredders. That’s why Infoshred has added a micro-shredder specifically for Solid State Drives (SSDs) and other small data-containing technology. The main difference between HDDs and SSDs is that SSDs use flash memory chips, rather than a spinning disk, to store data. It is very important to thoroughly destroy SSDs with a micro-shredder as there is no other viable option to guarantee data destruction. - BEWARE…SSDs and their IC chips are not fully destroyed by standard hard drive shredders, or worse yet, they can slip through the gaps in the shredder touched! - Degaussing is not effective for SSDs because data is stored on microchips rather than stored magnetically on disks. - Crypto-Erase deletes all security keys that hold data on devices, but SSD crypto-keys can be broken, and data can still be accessed after the process. - Overwriting is possible, but SSDs can defeat traditional methods of overwriting when sections of data are ‘blocked’ or ‘unavailable,’ allowing hackers to recover partial data. - HHDs can be physically damaged by using items like a drill or hammer, but SSDs are a series of memory chips. Trying to destroy it with home tools will leave areas of data intact. Infoshred’s new micro-shredder will process SSDs in pieces less than 3/16th of an inch. Call us today to make sure your outdated equipment, with all its data, is being properly destroyed!

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• Document Scanning Services

  Records, archives, files, and physical documents have been piling up in storage rooms, warehouses, and file cabinets around the globe. This data is unstructured, and usually not searchable. This impacts your business in many ways. You can never find what you need, manual processing takes forever, customer satisfaction suffers and new privacy regulations around records put you at risk for non-compliance. What is the Difference Between Scanning a Document and Digitizing a Document? Before learning about the benefits of scanning and digitizing paper documents, it is helpful to understand the difference between the two processes. Document Scanning Our document digitization involves scanning a document to create an image of that document. Images of documents can then be saved on a computer under various file extensions, or formats. Common image formats include BMP (BITMAP for Windows only); JPEG (JPG); PDF; PCT (PICT, for MAC OS X) or TIF (TIFF, Tagged Image File Format). Once saved in one of several formats, scanned document images may be modified using an image editor, but text cannot be inserted or changed on its own. When searching for document text on a scanned image is required, the added layer of technology needed is an optical character recognition (OCR) software program. Digitizing Scanned Documents Once scanned and appropriately formatted, paper documents can be uploaded into a company’s document management system. Once documents are digitized, AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) technology automatically captures, classifies, extracts, validates, and exports data into a workflow system or document management application. No manual processing or routing is required when you rely on us to seamlessly transfer scanned and digitized documents into your organization’s computer system. 4 Great Benefits of our Scanning Services Mitigate Risk, Reduce Time, and Decrease Expenses Through Effectively Managing Paper Documents It was not until the first decade of the 21st century that companies started moving operational information from filing cabinets to premises and SaaS solutions. Companies of all industries and sizes now realize how much more cost-effective it is to have all data digitally accessible. Compliance regulations of governing industries are not only rigorous but costly if they are violated. The risk of being audited and found non-compliant with standardized regulations rises significantly if records are not accurate, up-to-date, and quickly accessible. Stay Ahead of the Competition with our Document Scanning Services Organizations relying on dated business processes and workflow, tend to use physical records to maintain operations. This tends to lead to inefficiencies, lack of response times, and poor customer experiences. They also are not utilizing the full capacity of their staff resources or actively improving customer satisfaction or driving new revenue. Paper files not only take up space but can be misplaced, lost, easily removed by unethical employees, and used to a company’s disadvantage. Avoid Loss of Valuable Data Due to Natural Disasters Climate change is producing stronger, more frequent floods, tornadoes and hurricanes that can cause catastrophic damage to land, homes, and buildings. Physical documents kept in file cabinets, on wall shelves and storage rooms are at extreme risk of permanent destruction during a major weather event. It is more imperative than ever for companies to ensure all past and current data is safely uploaded and stored on cloud server. This creates geographic separation and data duplication in an alternate format, in accordance with disaster recovery best practices. Maximize Office Space Scanning documents frees up expensive real estate. No more record-filled shelves, overflowing filing cabinets, or heavy boxes that take up valuable office space and are a hassle to sift through for a single record. Instead, all your documents, files, and records can be stored in one easy-to-use system. Studies estimate that 50 to 70 percent of office space is dedicated to document storage. Going paperless allows you to reallocate funding to a more valuable area of your business. Contact Us Today to Discuss Digitizing Your Documents In addition to professional, secure scanning and digitization services, we also provide onsite pick-up of documents from any location in the world. Call today to receive a free estimate today!

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