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FAX Machines in "The Wild" Posing a Security Problem
For You? NOAH is Your Solution!
FAX Machines in “The
Wild”
Posing a Security Problem For You? NOAH is Your Solution!
How often have you or anyone else in your organization given
any thought to your fax machine? Why, you ask, would anyone
give any thought to their fax machine? It works, it's easy
to use, it's convenient and every business has at least one.
Fortune 500 companies may have hundreds and many private individuals
have them in their homes. All told, worldwide some 120,000,000
fax machines are probably in operation. The demand for fax
machines never seems to end.
Is there anything more that I need to know?
Well, yes! Why? Because it really is quite a story. Contrary
to what most people think, the fax machine is NOT a late 20th
Century invention. In fact, the "telefacsimile"
machine was invented in England 1843. The inventor of this
device died in 1903, but it was not un till the late 1970’s
that the world saw a small, fast, reliable and efficient fax
machine.
The reality is that modern business cannot now function without
this 19th Century invention and fax traffic increases every
year! Why? The fax is a simple, efficient and reliable way
to send original hard copy documents like purchase orders,
invoices, quotations, stock trade confirmations, contacts,
bills of lading, delivery slips, top secret reports, classified
documents, or virtually any document, line drawing, schematic
or photograph, virus free, around the corner or around the
world. To top this all off, faxes are accepted as "material
evidence" in courts of law.
What a great tool; all upside and no downside, right? Well,
actually, wrong! You see the world has changed a great deal
since Alexander Bain invented the first fax machine. In 1843,
Mr. Bain was not worried about security, audit trails, or
industrial espionage, nor could he have ever known that, in
the future, a significant amount of industrial espionage would
be facilitated through the auspices of his little invention.
Further there was no need to think about Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)
compliance, expenses associated with PSTN fax lines, long
distance charges and consumables.
Well, what's the real bottom line? In 2005, if you are a
publicly traded corporation (or any private business for that
matter, large or small) your fax machine can pose a very real
security and financial risk that is ultimately the direct
responsibility of your CEO, CFO and auditors. Bottom line,
all faxes must be retained for legal, fiscal, administrative
and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance reasons.
Fax machines in "the wild" state, defined as those
machines that are unsecured by NOAH, are a potential liability
to senior executives of your firm as well as to your firm's
bottom line. The world in the 21st Century has changed and
compliance is dictated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
It is no longer enough for your CEO or CFO to claim
compliance; the onus is now on your auditors to confirm
actual compliance by your corporation. ~
Make your fax machines secure
and SOX compliant. Learn
more about NOAH...
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