Law firm relied on Clean Start to declutter, reduce risk, and become more organised
Customer Success Stories
After years of normal operations, M&A activity, and employee turnover, a US-based law firm struggled with a cluttered and disorganised workplace.
With unsecured documents and other information assets creating the risk for a data breach, negatively impacting employee productivity, and limited resources and expertise to solve the problem in-house, the organisation turned to Iron Mountain Clean Start for help.
Challenge
- A cluttered office environment due to years of normal operations, M&A activity, and employee turnover
- Unsecured and disorganised information assets,
- including documents and IT equipment, located throughout the workplace
- Limited in-house resources or expertise to securely clean up and organise space
Solution
Outcome
- Labour support and expertise to build an inventory database and organise over 70,000 physical records
- Secure destruction of over 3.6 million documents that were past retention date
- Itemised secure destruction and recycling of obsolete IT assets
- Remediation and recovery of water-damaged records
Clean start walkthrough and assessment performed and identified:
- 70,000+ Documents that needed to be retained, with limited organisation
- 2,000 Linear feet of documents on open shelves that were past their retention date and could be destroyed
- Hundreds of obsolete and unsecured IT assets (computers, flash drives, hard drives, etc.), Some potentially containing sensitive information
- Files with water damage that needed to be identified and recovered