{"id":116814,"date":"2018-09-27T10:09:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T14:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?p=116814"},"modified":"2018-09-27T10:09:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T14:09:04","slug":"bu-information-security-shredding-event-october-9-11-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/2018\/09\/27\/bu-information-security-shredding-event-october-9-11-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Information Security Shredding Event: October 9-11, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BU Information Security Presents:\u00a0<em>Free paper shredding! Securely dispose of your hard drive!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every year during the month of October, as part of National Cyber-Security Awareness Month, Boston University conducts an annual Information Security Awareness Campaign. We are happy to announce, in conjunction with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/about\/fair\/\">IS&amp;T Tech Fair<\/a>, that we will once again be offering 3 days of free paper shredding and collection of unwanted computing equipment to be securely destroyed and recycled. Materials brought for shredding on 10\/9 or 10\/10 will earn you a prize at the IS&amp;T Tech Fair on 10\/10. Additionally, we are collaborating with both\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/\">BUMC IT<\/a><\/u>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sustainability\">sustainability@BU<\/a>\u00a0so that we may provide a more holistic service to the BU community.<\/p>\n<p>This is also a good opportunity to familiarize yourself with the\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/policies\/record-retention\/\">University&#8217;s Record Retention Policy<\/a><\/u>.\u00a0 Do you have old University records that need shredding?\u00a0 Bring them over and let us shred them for you!<\/p>\n<p>Shredding Event days are currently scheduled as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tuesday, 10\/9 from 10:00-1:00 &#8211; In the parking lot behind Agganis Arena (CRC West: 925 Commonwealth Ave)<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, 10\/10 from 10:00-1:00- In the Granby St. Parking Lot (CRC East: 665 Commonwealth Ave)<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, 10\/11 from 10:00-1:00 &#8211; In front of the Talbot Building (BUMC: 715 Albany Street)\u00a0<em>A special prize drawing to be held for BUMC shredders<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To further the University&#8217;s efforts in diverting waste from landfills and incinerators, we will also accept office electronics (including computers and laptops), batteries, and ink\/toner cartridges for recycling at the above events.<\/p>\n<p>Due to space constraints at the Granby lot, please consider bringing sizeable amounts of paper or large bulk items to the Agganis Arena lot on Tuesday, 10\/9.<\/p>\n<p>Please note:\u00a0This event is to collect and securely dispose of the types of items noted above.\u00a0 Please refrain from bringing for old trash items that need to be thrown out.<\/p>\n<p>You can find information on the Shredding Event, plus other helpful information security materials at our website:\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/information-security\">https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/information-security<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for additional upcoming communications on Information Security Awareness Campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU Information Security Presents:\u00a0Free paper shredding! Securely dispose of your hard drive! Every year during the month of October, as part of National Cyber-Security Awareness Month, Boston University conducts an annual Information Security Awareness Campaign. We are happy to announce, in conjunction with the\u00a0IS&amp;T Tech Fair, that we will once again be offering 3 days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[795],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116815,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116814\/revisions\/116815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}