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Protecting business documents is high on the list of priorities of most companies, but what should you do when you feel your efforts might not be enough? Today we’re going to help you analyze the potential threats to your business documents and discover the single easiest solution to ensuring the survival of your information.

Natural disasters

Natural disasters are the leading cause of damage to important business documents. Every year tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes lay waste to offices around the world. Offices are often insured and can be repaired given time. One thing that can never be restored is all the information lost when an office is destroyed along with the business documents it contains.

Of any natural disaster, floods cause the most damage to business documents. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The floods laid waste to offices and schools across the state. The citizens of New Orleans faced a crisis due to all the information destroyed during the hurricane.

Corporate espionage

As technological breakthroughs are made it becomes easier and easier for individuals to spy on a company and steal sensitive information. Over 50,000 companies every day fall victim to cyberattacks. These cyberattacks most often end with either the company paying a large ransom or having their darkest secrets leaked and facing frivolous lawsuits.

While hackers continue to attack companies worldwide, there are still those who prefer to keep things old school. Even in this day and age, it is not uncommon for companies to be burglarized and have their documents stolen by corporate spies who have been hired by their competitors.

Biodegradation

Physical documents which are stored in disaster-proof vaults are still susceptible to destruction. Even high-grade office paper decomposes eventually. You might be thinking “by the time it decomposes I’ll already be too dead to care” and while that is most likely true there are more immediate threats lurking in the shadows.

Paper-eating pests destroy countless business documents around the world. Cockroaches, silverfish, booklice, and many other bugs look at your valuable information as a tasty meal. These minuscule eating machines will eat everything from documents to envelopes.

The Solution

With so many potential threats to your business documents, you might be wondering if it’s possible to protect your documents at all. Well, there’s one solution that never fails, offsite storage. Offsite storage facilities are often climate-controlled to prevent pests from eating your documents, heavily guarded to prevent burglaries, and have physical and digital security systems to protect your documents from hackers and natural disasters.

Offsite storage is the fantastic one size fits all solution that can secure your business documents and protect them from any impending threats. Perfect Retention offers high-end storage solutions at a fair price. We also offer other services such as document conversion, document destruction, and more!