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BULLETIN
Secure your MFP with DSales (UK)
DSales (UK) Ltd has introduced a new service to help customers protect Develop ineo
MFPs against data theft.
With the ineo SECURE UK service, a trained service technician will configure the security settings of
a customer’s ineo A3 or A4 MFP based on each customer’s particular requirements.
Security features offered by ineo SECURE UK include HDD lock to prevent unauthorised access; an
HDD encryption key so data can be stored in a password-protected partition on the MFP hard drive; HDD
overwrite to obliterate temporary data as soon as a print job is completed; and configuration of the HDD
automatically to delete a job in specified user-boxes, system boxes and folders.
ABS welcomes Samsung
tech gurus
This summer, two technical specialists
from Samsung’s South Korea HQ visited
print management company ABS UK’s
West Yorkshire offices as part of the MPS
provider’s upskilling programme.
The Samsung Tech Gurus provided eight
members of the ABS UK technical, networking
and installations team with an insight into
software solutions and features unique to
Samsung devices, including service and support
apps.
ABS UK’s Summer Upskilling Programme
also included training from Develop and Ricoh.
In total, the programme delivered more than 20
hours of formalised training sessions, as well as
40 hours of e-learning.
Scan and secure
To help counter the lack of preparedness
for GDPR amongst UK organisations
(see
PITR
Issue 44, page 15), KYOCERA
Document Solutions has launched
KYOCERA SecureAudit.
Developed in the UK by KYOCERA’s product
development team, SecureAudit provides a
simple way to scan KYOCERA MFPs for security
vulnerabilities, such as default admin passwords
and open ports.
Eddie Ginja, Head of Innovation at KYOCERA,
said: “Just like other IoT devices, our printers are
now connected to the Internet as well as corporate
networks, creating a massively expanded threat
surface. Without adequate protection, cyber-
attacks can easily gain access to unencrypted and
other (personal) data available across entire IT
networks.”
Recent research by Quocirca estimates that
of the millions of business printers in the world,
only 2% are secure, with as many as 63% of
businesses surveyed experiencing one or more
print-related data breaches.
KYOCERA SecureAudit will be offered within
KYOCERA’s suite of application software, powered
by HyPAS.
Other KYOCERA security solutions include
biometric identification; user authentication, such
as Net Manager, which only releases print jobs
once a user has identified themselves at an MFP;
data encryption; data overwriting processes; and
automatic deletion processes.
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Synaxon revamps
e-commerce webstore
Synaxon UK is launching a revamped
version of its ecommerce webstore, EGIS
Ecom, and offering free one-month trials to
members.
The new webstore provides direct links
into Synaxon’s EGIS channel stock, pricing and
procurement system and can be set up in hours with
no technical knowledge required. Members can
choose which distributors they take data feeds from
and apply their own logo and tailored mark-ups.
With a direct connection between EGIS Ecom
(formerly Click2IT) and EGIS, orders placed on the
webstore will now automatically be fed into the
procurement platform, streamlining the ordering
process and saving time.
Members can still use EGIS to search for the
best price and select which distributor to order
from, while benefiting from their own terms and
conditions and those negotiated for them by
Synaxon
A useful new ‘best sellers’ feature automatically
shows the most popular alternative products to the
one being searched for. This information is provided
automatically every time a reseller searches. It
draws data from all 32
distributor feeds to give
EGIS users the most
up-to-the-minute stock,
availability and pricing
information. EGIS can
also now provide an estimated delivery time from
distributors.
Synaxon members are also being invited to take
up the offer of a free trial of Autotask Endpoint
Backup (AEB), a cloud-based, real-time backup and
restore solution, for themselves and their customers.
For a limited period, the solution is being offered at
the special price of £7.80 per month, per endpoint,
with unlimited storage.
Derek Jones, Managing Director of Synaxon UK,
said: “AEB is the perfect service for both end-users
and the reseller. It takes care of backups without
you having to worry. We can provision it in minutes
on our portal and it’s a very easy sell and a good
cash-generator for the reseller. With the free trial
and the special low price, our offer on AEB is
something you can’t afford to ignore.”
ThinPrint launches server-
less print management
solution
ThinPrint has launched a new server-less
print management solution that migrates
print management to the cloud, while
enabling secure printing from Macs and
PCs to take place locally.
ThinPrint says that by eliminating the need
to implement and manage on-site infrastructure,
ezeep Dash delivers significant resource savings
for companies of all sizes.
Thorsten Hesse, Chief Product Officer at
ThinPrint, likens ezeep Dash to Gmail or Salesforce.
“As Gmail makes the mail server unnecessary,
and Salesforce makes the CRM Server obsolete,
so ezeep Dash means print servers are no longer
required,” he said.
Administrators can use the cloud portal to
define printers and assign employees or groups.
Everything else, including the installation of drivers,
adjustments for changes to IP addresses and driver
updates, are automatically taken care of by ezeep
Dash and its agents on users’ machines.
Each user can manage the printers assigned
to them via the Self Service Portal. While printer
allocation takes place in the cloud, the entire
printing process continues to be available locally
on the user’s device, even if the computer is offline.
When it becomes available in the fourth
quarter, ezeep Dash will cost
€
0.57 per user, per
month.
Derek Jones
