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White Paper: Canon imageRUNNER/imagePRESS Security

1.1 — Security Market Overview

In today’s digital world, risks to networks and devices come in more forms and from more directions

than ever before. From identity theft and intellectual property loss to infection by viruses and trojan

horses, IT administrators today find themselves playing an additional role of security officer to

adequately protect information and assets from threats from the outside as well as within.

Nearly every day destructive threats emerge and undiscovered vulnerabilities are exposed, proving

that you can never be too secure. IT administrators need a holistic security strategy that can be

applied at every level of the organization — from servers, desktops and devices such as MFPs, to the

networks that connect them all.

As if the risks to computers, networks and devices weren’t difficult enough to address, increased

governmental regulations add an additional layer of strict compliance standards that must be met.

Legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB), Health Insurance

Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Family Education Rights Privacy Act (FERPA) all require

that IT administrators ensure the security, privacy, accuracy and reliability of information receives the

utmost attention.

1.2 — Imaging & Printing Security Overview

Today’s multifunction devices share many similarities with general purpose PCs. They contain many

of the same components like CPUs, memory and hard disks; and some even use mainstream

operating systems like Windows or Linux. Like any other device on the network, sensitive information

may be passed through these units and stored in the device’s hard disk and memory. Yet at many

companies multifunction devices are not given the same attention concerning information security.

The Canon imageRUNNER/imagePRESS Security White Paper has been designed to provide detailed

information on how the imageRUNNER and imagePRESS series of devices can address a wide variety

of security concerns. imageRUNNER and imagePRESS devices offer many standard security

capabilities, as well as a number of advanced security options that may be added for a higher level of

confidentiality, integrity and availability of your mission critical information.

Section 1 — Introduction