Digital Copier Electronic Evidence

Document Security and the Digital Copier and Printer " You've undoubtedly gone to great lengths to secure your network and intellectual property as well as to safeguard your client's confidences, but have you considered your digital office products from the perspective of your security infrastructure. . . The digital multifunction system's ability to manage image data for printing, scanning, faxing and copying creates versatile efficiency in your workflow, which is achieved through the innovation of the microprocessor and memory devices designed to handle electronic image data. But, did you ever ask yourself what happens to that image data after the job is complete? Most MFPs store image data in memory such as hard disk drives, the kind used in PCs. And just like a PC, the latent image data remains until that disk sector is overwritten. So, even if you think the data is deleted, it may not really be the case. The hard disk has a 'management data area' and a 'real data area', and when you delete data, you are only deleting data from the management data area, leaving the real data intact."