Date:19/02/2005 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/02/19/stories/2005021902150500.htm

Back Canon makes its devices more secure

Our Bureau

Bangalore , Feb. 18

CANON India, a digital imaging company, has made security an integral part of its imaging and printing devices. It hopes this would give a big share in the Rs 235-crore peripheral security market.

Mr Laksmi Narayan Rao, Assistant Director (Marketing), told presspersons the network imaging and printing infrastructure had become a critical component of office infrastructure and attacks against unsecured network communications could result in loss of confidential data and productivity.

Printers and imaging devices thus integrated with hard disc drives could become vulnerable, even if the parent machines were protected with security solutions such asl ike firewall and other measures. Canon thus developed an integrated device to provide the secure environment for the printing and imaging device, Mr Lakshmi Narayan said.

The security solutions of Canon had features like data overwrite protection, and secure print options and they ensure that once sent to the printing device, only the authorised user could take the printout of the confidential document.