Secure DIMM
As laser printers assume an expanding role, they are often called upon to print proprietary, confidential, or otherwise sensitive documents.
Accounting, Engineering, Human Resources, Marketing, Payroll, Production, and Sales - every department within your organization is using laser printers to print an ever-growing array of sensitive data. From market strategy to client information, much of the information printed on corporate printers is confidential in nature. If this data is diverted into the wrong hands, corporate competitiveness and success can be irreparably damaged. If it is being used to output checks, drafts or other financial documents, modifications to the data stream (for example, altered check values) can translate into immediate and direct financial losses.
Most corporations have established security programs to protect the databases where their sensitive data resides in its raw form. The data however, is usually still vulnerable to unauthorized access and modification as it travels to a printer. The most ironic part of this security hole is that it exists at the precise point in time when the data is often formatted in a manner to be most useful to a nefarious party. This vulnerability can seriously impair corporate security and even expose an enterprise to unnecessary legal liability.
The SecureDIMM
SecureDIMM is an integral component of a comprehensive solution that protects sensitive print job data using advanced encryption technology. When a document is printed the data is often stored in spool files, where it can be viewed, or even altered, with tools as simple as the Microsoft Windows Notepad program. More technically savvy users can even intercept the data directly from the network as it travels to the printer. Even simple mistakes such as directing a print job to the wrong printer can unintentionally expose sensitive data.
SecureDIMM makes it possible to protect sensitive print job data by encrypting it and thus making it indecipherable to humans and printable only by specific printers.
SecureDIMM contains firmware that is executed by the microprocessor in the LaserJet printer. This firmware extends the printer with sophisticated data decryption capabilities. Encrypted data is decrypted at it’s final destination, inside the printer.
In the absence of the decryption commands, the printer continues to function like any standard LaserJet printer, providing maximum investment efficiency. Both encrypted and standard jobs have complete access to other optional printer enhancements such as fonts, page description languages and other Capella Technologies printer enhancement filters.
Advanced Encryption Technology
The SecureDIMM utilizes the Rijndael encryption algorithm. The National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) has selected Rijndael as the new Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). The NIST is an agency of the United States Commerce Department’s Technology Administration.
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