Edmund Jacobs is an innovation specialist for The Connected Office Division at Konica Minolta South Africa. Photo, LinkedIn
by EDMUND JACOBS
JOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) – THE recent leak of two matric exam papers and arrest of a suspect who works for a company contracted by the Department of Basic Education to print the exam papers, has raised renewed concerns over security and data leaks within a corporate and public organisation environment.
This, as every company and its employees manage vast amounts of information daily – much of which will be confidential including documents, personal data, addresses, budgets, plans, mock-ups and countless other resources that need to be printed, copied and scanned. Without reliable document security, these organisations run a high risk of such sensitive data falling into unauthorised hands. The consequences of this – strategic plans, high-level pricing plans and costings and product strategies copied for instance with no password and di