Information theft could ruin your business

“Do you know who’s looking at your data?”

In today’s fast-paced business arena it can be difficult to track exactly who can see your data.

Yet when the wrong information gets in the wrong hands it can often result in catastrophe for the unlucky organisation involved.

Many companies quite rightly spend hundreds of thousands of pounds restricting building access, training staff to use secure passwords and setting up firewalls and email gateways. These are essential measures, but very few companies worry about documents being reproduced by printers, copiers and other devices.

And since research shows a third of employees have seen confidential information on a printer businesses are playing with fire when it comes to information security.

After all, many printers offer features that could be potentially lethal to information security:

• Hard drives that cache print jobs and documents
• The ability to email direct from copiers to email addresses outside the organisation’s network

This is a real World threat, and not limited to MI5 operatives leaving laptops in the back of taxis. Unless you secure your data, then someone has the chance to steal it.

And in the current economic climate, theft has risen as people struggle to cope with financial difficulties. This makes opportunistic situations far more attractive.

What can you do?

Balreed is a leading supplier of managed print services with a reputation for professional, quality and service. We provide a range of bespoke packages that put your organisation and its needs first. We understand and recognise the security risk that your devices potentially pose and can offer a wide selection of solutions including:

• Encryption of all data on all devices, whether printed, scanned or copied
• Authentication of users using pin codes, swipe cards or finger recognition
• Logging – where printing, scanning, emailing and faxing activity is tracked against a list of authorised users
• A range of data security services when disposing or relocating your print equipment including data and drive overwriting and physical destruction

We can also offer advice on the most efficient use recycling facilities in a more secure business environment.

For your free consultation, please call Balreed today.