Onsite Shredding for Schools and Educational Institutions: Keeping Student Data Safe

As a member of a school’s faculty, your students and their families submit a lot of personal information to your institution. Whether you work in an elementary school or college university, you have access to a wealth of sensitive data.

With that in mind, it’s important to maintain a strict sense of security and protection for your students. You can accomplish that with SEAM’s onsite document shredding services, which ensure that no compromising information is able to fall into the wrong hands.

School Records: The Most Common Types of Sensitive Data

It might not seem like a big deal to keep old records around, but schools operate best with thorough student records. These contain many different types of sensitive data about them and their families, and many bad actors may look to leak and misuse that information for some sort of gain.

Here are some data categories that put your students at risk:

Home Addresses

Your institution needs at least one home address on file for each student. But as a result, your records contain the addresses of the entire student body, which could potentially put your students’ safety and privacy at risk should they end up in the wrong hands.

Some ways home addresses can be used maliciously include the following:

• Personal stalking
• Spam mail
• Unwanted marketing and advertisements
• Confrontation or conflict
• Harassment
• Burglary
• Identity theft

These may seem like unlikely scenarios, but it’s always better to be safe than sorry when it comes to your students’ well-being.

Medical Information

Medical conditions, medication regimens, and other details regarding your students’ personal health information should all remain private, kept between appropriate school personnel and each student’s family only. By keeping students’ medical information in their records long past their needed uses, you not only put their private health information at risk but also run the risk of inciting a legal issue due to HIPAA laws.

Birthdates and Full Legal Names

Unfortunately, bad actors can do plenty with just someone’s full name and birthdate. When you keep old records around, you’re setting former students up for identity theft.

Sioux Falls Onsite Shredding for Convenience and Security

SEAM’s onsite shredding services ensure that you know exactly when and where student records and other sensitive documents are traveling before they are shredded.

We come to you and follow strict security and privacy protocols to ensure the total destruction of paper documents. We use a ⅝-inch strip cut, and once a document is shredded, it’s no longer usable or readable in any format.

We also offer NAID AAA certified solid-state and hard drive sanitization and shredding. These services protect private digital information, allowing you to transfer it to new systems without worrying about data leaks or breaches from your old devices.

SEAM Shredding Services for Schools and Universities

There’s nothing more important than your students’ safety and peace of mind. As an educational institution, you can prevent many problems through thorough document destruction and shredding.

If your educational institution is located in either North Dakota, Iowa or South Dakota, SEAM is the premier shredding service provider in the area. Let us take care of the hard work of destroying old records and other sensitive documents today!