RK Black Shredding & Susan G. Komen: Allies against breast cancer. That’s why for more than two years, R.K. Black Shredding has partnered with Susan G. Komen of Central and Western Oklahoma to raise funds to help fight breast cancer and to…
While it’s clear you need your documents shredded, the question is whether you should hire a shredding service or buy an office shredder…
A common myth among small to medium-sized businesses is HIPAA compliance only matters for hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, healthcare providers and the like. Unfortunately, if your company has employees, you probably hold information that…
It’s that time of year again and soon you’ll be zipping W-2s and 1099s through your postage meter and into the mailboxes your associates. Yep, the holidays are over and tax season is just around the corner. And as that April 15th deadline…
Shredding events. Maybe you’ve seen your bank, credit union or even your local municipality hosting one. They are growing more prevalent as individuals and organizations are becoming aware of the ever-increasing occurrence of identity theft…
As this year’s tax filing season wraps up, you likely may by looking at your filing cabinet and thinking it might be time to reduce some of that paper weight and shred some expired tax forms. Why not? You’ve already got the drawer open…
Businesses of all industries create literally tons of paper. If your business is like most, you have lots of it stacked away in filing cabinets, even stashed in your desk drawers and maybe even piled on your desk, and now it’s time to…
To shred offsite or onsite, that is your question. Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer and know not whether your documents were indeed shredded, or to rest knowing they have been torn asunder. Okay, enough Shakespeare. You want to…
R.K. Black has been in the paper shredding business for four years now. So just for kicks, a few weeks ago we decided to do some research based on our numbers and some some statistics from recycling-revolution.com on recycling paper just…
Ever hear that expression “Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water?” Well, if you’re going to get rid of a copier without checking the security of the information on its hard drives, you’re going to do exactly that. You see, the baby…
An IT help desk is the support function that helps employees resolve technology problems — password resets, software and email issues, connectivity, and hardware failures — through channels like phone, email, chat, and a ticketing portal. End-user support is the broader practice of keeping people productive by resolving their day-to-day
Print security is the practice of protecting printers, multifunction devices, and the documents they handle from unauthorized access, data theft, and network attacks. Modern printers are networked computers with hard drives and their own operating systems — which makes them a genuine attack surface that needs the same protection as
Backup and disaster recovery (BDR) is the combination of two protections: backup, which copies your business data so it can be restored, and disaster recovery, which is the tested plan for getting systems and operations running again after a disruption. Backup protects the data itself. Disaster recovery protects your ability
Most business networks run invisibly until the moment they don’t. Files open, email flows, applications respond, and nobody thinks about the routers, switches, and firewalls quietly moving all that traffic — right up until a switch fails, an internet circuit drops, or a misconfigured firewall blocks half the office from
The business phone system rarely gets attention until it fails — and then it gets all of it at once. A dropped call with a major client, a phone tree that routes customers into voicemail purgatory, a new office that can’t get lines installed for weeks: communication problems interrupt revenue
Cyber threats have moved from “if” to “when” for businesses of every size. Attackers scanning networks for weak spots don’t discriminate by industry, revenue, or headcount — they’re looking for vulnerabilities, and any business connected to the internet ends up on someone’s target list eventually. The businesses that recover cleanly
Physical mail hasn’t gone away. Invoices, statements, notices, contracts, appeals, marketing pieces, court filings, patient communications, and regulatory correspondence still move by mail in enormous volumes across every industry. The volume shows up on the operations side as labor, on the postage bill as expense, and on the budget as
Every few months a new headline lands about a firewall breach, and the natural reaction is to ask, “Are we exposed?” The latest one—an exposure researchers are calling FortiBleed—is worth your attention, but not for the reason most coverage suggests. The real story isn’t a single vendor’s stumble. It’s that the legacy VPN
Documents are the connective tissue of every business. Invoices, contracts, HR records, patient charts, client files, board materials, regulatory filings — every department generates them, every process depends on them, and every audit examines them. When the systems managing all that volume break down, the friction touches everything: approvals stall,
