OEM instigates user awareness campaign and introduces solutions to encourage organisations to “educate and equip” staff in secure printing.
Trade Arabia reported that Canon Middle East is taking action to prevent printer security issues after the OEM conducted a printer usage survey finding 65 percent of respondents had “misplaced both confidential and corporate documents at the printer tray” due to being unaware of secure print features.
The survey was conducted on 1,000 SMEs throughout the GCC, and highlights that many companies “are in danger of losing critical information that could hamper business growth” due to users not utilising their printer’s security features.
As a result of the findings, Canon Middle East has introduced its Universal Login Manager (ULM) and uniFlow solutions to enable SMEs to “educate and equip” staff to print documents securely. Explaining the ULM solution, Henrik Verbrugghe, Marketing Director at Canon Middle East, said: “Paper records are the most significant source of a data breach, second only to losing a laptop or other data device. Canon has addressed this issue with its unique ULM solution.
“ULM delivers convenient user authentication through proximity cards or picture logins. With ULM, confidential jobs can be held centrally on a print server and are only released when the user authenticates at the device. The user can go to any device in any location with the knowledge that their job will be printed securely.”
Meanwhile the uniFlow Secure Printing solution is designed for larger organisations, and enables users to “send their sensitive documents to network printers and have the job printed only when they are physically standing in front of the printer”, whether the printer is “on a different floor, building, city or even in a different country”.
Canon Middle East added that the Swipe and Avatar login features mean that users must “swipe their ID, click on their avatar, or enter their user name and password to log in”, with a second authentication level available which requires entering a pin code after completing the first authentication steps.