Financial sector

Office shredders for financial documents

The financial sector generates large quantities of sensitive documents every day – from account statements and contracts to accounting and audit documents. In order to meet compliance requirements such as GDPR or BDSG, branches and departments should destroy sensitive financial data at least at security level P-4. Documents requiring special protection, such as internal risk reports or audit documents, usually require P-5, while P-6 is also used in data centres or particularly security-critical areas. intimus office shredders offer the right solution for every requirement – from compact, quiet desktop devices for the workplace to powerful departmental devices for large volumes. The intimus autofeed shredders, which automatically feed and shred entire stacks of paper, are particularly practical. This saves banks and insurance companies time in their day-to-day work and at the same time increases the efficiency of data protection-compliant document destruction.

Disintegrators and industrial shredders

In banks, insurance companies and financial centres, the secure destruction of large quantities of confidential documents is a central component of data security and compliance. Disintegrators from intimus enable the complete and irreversible destruction of account statements, contracts, audit documents or even banknotes directly on site – without the risk posed by external service providers. The devices shred documents into tiny particles, making reconstruction virtually impossible. Interchangeable screens allow the security levels to be flexibly adjusted – from P-5 for everyday documents to P-7 for highly sensitive financial data or banknotes. The destruction of banknotes is particularly important, as worn or damaged notes must be taken out of circulation in order to prevent counterfeiting, comply with legal requirements and provide audit-proof evidence of destruction. For very large quantities of standard documents that do not require a high security level, intimus offers powerful industrial shredders at P-4. 

Media shredders and granulators

In addition to paper files, digital storage media pose a major security risk in the financial sector. Hard drives in servers, USB sticks with customer data or memory cards contain highly sensitive information that must be reliably deleted. intimus media shredders quickly shred data carriers into irreparable pieces, while granulators process media into fine, uniform particles. With interchangeable screens, the security levels can be flexibly adjusted – from E-3 to E-5 for particularly sensitive data. For hard drives and magnetic storage media, H-4 to H-5 are generally considered the standard in the financial sector. With the intimus FlashEx, even flash media can be securely destroyed directly in the office – a fast and audit-proof solution for banks and insurance companies that value maximum security.

Degaussers and crushers for maximum security

For classic HDD hard drives, the combination of a degausser and crusher is the most secure form of data destruction. During degaussing, all information is completely and irreversibly deleted using an extremely strong magnetic field. The crusher then destroys the physical structure of the data carrier by deforming, punching or breaking it. With optional audit trail systems, all destruction processes can be automatically logged. This means that it is possible to trace and audit-proof document at any time that all data has been deleted in accordance with regulations – crucial evidence for compliance checks and internal audits. This two-stage process complies with the most stringent international standards of the NSA and guarantees maximum security even for particularly sensitive financial data, audit documents or internal compliance documents. For large banks, data centres and financial institutions, the combination of degausser, crusher and audit trail system is therefore the optimal solution for maximum data security.