58% rise in data protection breaches

The study also found three quarters of consumers don't believe that online companies do enough to keep their personal details secure.

The numbers of high profile cases that have recently been reported in the media are leading many businesses to think about how secure their customer data is. For example, at the end of 2010, employment agency A4e was fined £60,000 for losing a laptop containing the encrypted data of thousands of people and, in June 2011, Surrey County Council was fined £120,000 for disclosing personal details on three separate occasions.

Many companies outsource the storage and management of important information to ensure safe, efficient and reliable access can be maintained at all times, and to ensure compliance with all relevant legislation. Records Management companies provide this solution, offering a safe house for original information which can be stored in secure vaults as well as providing media tape storage for electronic backups of data.

David Woolley, development director of Wincanton Records Management (WRM), the UK and Ireland’s fastest growing records management company comments: "We ensure reliable access to original documents is guaranteed at all times. Our vaults benefit from advanced fire prevention technology, gas suppression and twenty-four hour round-the-clock monitoring to ensure the safety of your data. Documents can be delivered twenty-four seven, 365 days a year, and we ensure the safe transport of items through our vehicle tracking systems."

As well as transporting records, WRM also offers a scan-back service in which all stored records are scanned and immediately available electronically in a number of formats: via an encrypted email, through the company’s secure online portal WinQuest or via secure FTP links.

Winquest+ allows customers to track and find any record whether it is at their office, company head office or off-site, therefore reducing time spent searching for important files and eliminating compliance issues.

WRM stores more than 20 million documents in total, ranging from criminal records to world war reconnaissance photographs. For further information, please visit www.wincantonrm.co.uk or call 0870 90 88 000.
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Wincanton Records Management (WRM) has over 20 years' experience in record management.

WRM offers the ideal solution for document storage. By providing off-site storage solutions for both live and archive documents, the company frees up valuable space in customers’ workplace’s which can be better used for business growth activities.

WRM offers a full range of records management services including secure document storage – at box, file from, open file and vital document levels - off-site data protection, on-site confidential secure shredding, scanning, image hosting and EDM solutions, in-house file tracking and space management, software solutions as well as consultancy services.

The WRM facilities are equipped with some of the highest standards of security and fire protection in Europe including very early smoke detection (VESDA), in-aisle and in-racking sprinkler systems, secure vaults with gas suppressions and temperature and humidity controlled environments, round-the-clock security, laser beam monitored perimeter fencing, highly sophisticated intruder alarms, dual-door airlock entry, electronic access pass entry and digital motion CCTV including night time visibility.

WRM provides services to a number of different industry sectors, including banking and financial services, legal, public sector and local government, healthcare, business services, professional services, pharmaceutical, retail services and energy.www.wincantonrm.co.uk