Printers tag things. Photo copiers save an image of everything copied.
But that's for forensic review. After the fact.
Correlating evidence. Not prevention. Not mitigation.
Some people don't believe data:https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/digital-copier-data-security-guide-businesses this isn't an opinion.
https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-10-2010/a_thief_in_the_photocopier__.html
"Several months ago, more than 400,000 New Yorkers received a data breach notification from health care provider Affinity Health Plan. But the warning wasn't due to the usual culprits, hackers who break into corporate computer systems. Rather, it was prompted by a single office copying machine.
You might not think a photocopier could cause such harm. But consider this: Starting in 2002, most copiers manufactured for use by businesses, libraries and copy centers have been equipped with computer hard drives.
"Every time you make a copy, print, scan, e-mail or send a fax from that machine, it makes and stores images of the document to the hard drive," says copier security expert John Juntunen. Unless the hard drive is erased or replaced, images of copied documents — including those with Social Security numbers, bank account information or medical files — remain stored inside the machine."
Printers tag things. Photo copiers save an image of everything copied.
But that's for forensic review. After the fact.
Correlating evidence. Not prevention. Not mitigation.
Some people don't believe data:https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/digital-copier-data-security-guide-businesses this isn't an opinion.
https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-10-2010/a_thief_in_the_photocopier__.html
"Several months ago, more than 400,000 New Yorkers received a data breach notification from health care provider Affinity Health Plan. But the warning wasn't due to the usual culprits, hackers who break into corporate computer systems. Rather, it was prompted by a single office copying machine.
You might not think a photocopier could cause such harm. But consider this: Starting in 2002, most copiers manufactured for use by businesses, libraries and copy centers have been equipped with computer hard drives.
"Every time you make a copy, print, scan, e-mail or send a fax from that machine, it makes and stores images of the document to the hard drive," says copier security expert John Juntunen. Unless the hard drive is erased or replaced, images of copied documents — including those with Social Security numbers, bank account information or medical files — remain stored inside the machine."
Printers tag things. Photo copiers save an image of everything copied.
But that's for forensic review. After the fact.
Correlating evidence. Not prevention. Not mitigation.
Some people don't believe data:https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/digital-copier-data-security-guide-businesses this isn't an opinion.
Printers tag things. Photo copiers save an image of everything copied.
But that's for forensic review. After the fact.
Correlating evidence. Not prevention. Not mitigation.