Re: Securing / erasing hard drives in copiers?

[Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>]

You should contact the support organization for your copiers - we use IKON -

<http://www.ikon.com/>

I have requested that all copier sold to Columbia be equipped with the software that erases the files on the copier 
hard drive after a copy is made or a scan
is finished.

It is not a free option, so it is being added into the cost of the copiers.

They seem to sell mostly Cannon copiers.

If you do not have centralized copier support, this will be a considerable harder project :-)

My 2 cents

Joel Rosenblatt

Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel


--On Monday, February 11, 2008 10:28 AM -0500 "Bruggeman, John" <jbruggeman () HUC EDU> wrote:

> Hello -
>   I was asked by my COO to check into securing / erasing any hard drives
> in photo copiers in the business office.  I can understand that with
> newer copiers that have PDF and email options that they could and
> probably do have hard drives, but I've not seen a protocol for that
> discussed here before.  I did Google the topic and I saw a Fox News link
> that I think prompted my boss asking, and some other similar reads, but
> no protocol or list of "secure" photo copiers.
>
> Fox News:
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258707,00.html
>
> CSO Article:
> http://www2.csoonline.com/blog_view.html?CID=32481
>
>
> Has anyone developed a protocol or practice for erasing / securing a
> photo copier?
>
> I will summarize the results for the group by Friday (2/15) and see what
> the consensus is from this list.
>
> Thank you for your help -
> John
>
> ===================================================
> John Bruggeman      Director of Information Systems
> Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
> Cincinnati   *  New York * Los Angeles * Jerusalem
> jbruggeman () huc edu   www.huc.edu



Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel