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I later checked secondary research and open-source news and investor sites and discovered that the notion of a merger or acquisition Email Marketing Strategies the company in question was not even being considered, much less publicly released. This could have caused a real issue for the company involved if a "get-rich quick" trader had leveraged this information in the stock market.

I then asked one of the Kinko's employees about the hard drives allegedly installed in these machines. The employee kindly told me that these copy machines were "top-of-the-line digital MFPs each containing 1 Gigabyte of hard drive space for storage."

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When I asked how information could be accessed from the MFP hard drives, she told me that the hard drives

She further told me: "And, it must be common knowledge that documents get left at a Kinko's, because there was a guy who came in here each week and collected presentations and extra copies left on the printers or scanners. After about the fourth or fifth day, I asked him what he was doing and he told me that he worked for [name omitted - the company is a competitor of a Fortune 500 company in the area]. He was hired as the company's competitive intelligence manager and one of the first places he goes to get his information is the Kinko's closest to the competitor's facility."

My jaw nearly dropped.

While I remain Mini Ipod Battery Iv Strong concerned about the issue of security with digital copy machines, I am also concerned that companies are actually lurking at Kinko's shops for competitor information. So, let this be a lesson: not only are digital copy machines not secure, it appears that employees who lack common sense are making the local copy shop a source of competitive intelligence!

Investing in basic information security awareness training and in annual audits of your company's risk level for information loss can help prevent embarrassing incidents of personal customer data loss or confidential company document loss.

Now, the question is: How are you going to protect your data both in the online and offline world?

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