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current vulnerability and look to resolve
that as part of fleet upgrade.”
Quentyn Taylor:
“Our customers can
trust Canon products and services to install
appropriate user permissions management
and manage the data that matters to their
business. The products or services Canon
brings to market are appropriately tested
by our internal security team against a best
practice model that we adopt for our own
internal security stature.
“We also operate an Information Security
Centre of Excellence to cascade knowledge
of our security offerings to internal staff,
partners and customers. We supply products
and services with appropriate technical
documentation, including explanations of
the configuration options that can impact on
information security risk.
“In addition, Canon contributes to the
steps companies should take to respond
to the upcoming General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR) by ensuring its products
and services build security in ‘by design’. We
operate a single information security team to
advise our customers and protect our own
business. We also engage with our customers
as a partner to help them appreciate how to
transition their risk appetite into actionable
policies and adopt an ‘inclusive approach’ to
their data security design.
Brian Young:
“We’re working hard to
build security solutions that fully protect
a user from any kind of data breach.
For ultimate security, businesses should
consider having a closed network and
output management software like aQrate,
which effectively locks down a system to
prevent unauthorised use. For authorisation
for BYOD, pull printing etc. users should be
supplied with a pin code/proximity card.
“Our security software solutions pack
encrypts and overwrites the hard disk
randomly to prevent data restoration. This
pack comes with three overwrite-erase
options. Data can be overwritten once for
a speedy solution, three times for extra
security or, for the ultimate option, using
the ‘three passes’ method – which is so
extreme it’s compliant with the United
States Department of Defence’s data
sanitisation standards.
“Training of our reseller network is also
of paramount importance. Data security is
one of the features of our training and we
suggest that resellers work data security
into every proposal. Some of our resellers
who specialise in a vertical market that is
sensitive to security breaches offer data
security solutions as standard. We expect
that to become much more the norm,
regardless of the sector served.”
James Dunne:
“MFPs are no longer
simply printers, photocopiers and scanners
and many IT departments do not fully
understand the technical capabilities
that MFPs now offer – including Java
Platforms, web access, FTP, SSH and HDD
storage. MFPs can now integrate into
modern IT environments and connect
to internal services that were not
previously associated with the printer.
This interconnectivity opens up more
functionalities now commonly used by
many corporate customers, and brings with
it new, more sophisticated security risks for
any unsecured processes.
“When you consider that our research
revealed that 41 per cent of respondents
use their own devices at work and a
quarter, store information in the public
cloud, despite this not being allowed, these
risks are only amplified.
“Vendors and dealers have a
responsibility to educate customers on
these risks, and to go beyond simply selling
devices to provide consultancy, solutions
and services. It’s increasingly difficult for
smaller organisations to have the resources
they need to effectively manage multiple
devices, networks and suppliers and this
lack of consistency can cost them hours of
employee time, lost documents and over-
priced, under-used service fees.
“Sharp is well positioned to provide UK
businesses with a broad choice of support
services to prevent, identify and resolve
issues across an entire IT network, and this
is something we are continuing to explore
for the channel. Our European optimised
solutions portfolio also ensures that our
customers have the right tools for the job in
hand and that the solutions we recommend
solve their business challenges whilst being
the smallest but most efficient portfolio.”
Nigel Allen:
“The majority of our devices
now have private print as standard, with
PIN release. We also use a combination of
private cloud and a virtual private network
(VPN) for our cloud printing services.
VPNs add another layer of security as they
extend your own network securely, with
firewall protection at both ends. Private
cloud, as opposed to the public cloud many
popular cloud printing services use, makes
cyberattacks significantly more difficult, as
your data lives behind a secure firewall.”
For ultimate
security,
businesses
should
consider
having
a closed
network
and output
management
software like
aQrate, which
effectively
locks down
a system
to prevent
unauthorised
use
...continued
Nigel Allen,
Marketing Director,
KYOCERA
James Dunne,
Product Business
Manager –
Office Solutions,
Sharp Europe
“VPNs add
another layer of
security as they
extend your own
network securely,
with firewall
protection at both
ends”
