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Have you seen this CBS Evening News program on security breaches?
Have you seen this CBS Evening News program on security breaches through your digial copier machine?
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6412572n&tag;=api
The news story only addressed the images stored on hard drives. Many digital copiers also store IP addresses, DNS server IP's, Global Catalog server IP's and email addresses. Not to mention copiers with integrated fax systems which store phone book entries for faxes.
For more on this topic take a look at my recent article at
http://www.itanswers4u.com/Wordpress/?p=223
What is your company doing to address this risk?
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At Accellion we’ve had our eye on digital copier machines for quite some time as a potential source of security breaches and data leakage. Today’s digital copiers and scanners provide the ability to scan a document and then email the resulting digital file as an email attachment. Without security controls, digital copiers and scanners pose a serious threat to protection of intellectual property and non-compliance with regulations such as HIPAA. In addition, scanned documents create huge email attachments that wreak havoc on email performance. A couple of years ago we introduced the SMTP Satellite which works in conjunction with Accellion secure file transfer to plug this security hole and secure and track the transfer of scanned documents and offload delivery from email. In addition our view is that disk and data encryption is always a good idea.
Check out our recent blog entries on these topics:
http://www.accellion.com/blog/2010/04/digital-copiers-and-scanners-digital-ti...
http://www.accellion.com/blog/2009/12/encryption-would-have-helped/
Digital copiers need to be considered as part of an organization's data security program.
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