NEWS
Canon study indicates 62 % do not measure printing costs
Despite 76 % of MENA organisations saying printing or copying documents is essential or very important to them , 62 % of them do not measure print costs efficiently , with the print cost measurement undertaken by organisations being typically basic and informal . This was revealed as part of Canon ’ s Office Insights 2016 report which aims to highlight the impact of document handling technology in high-growth markets across Central and Eastern Europe , Eurasia , the Middle East and Africa .
The in-depth analysis of 1,000 business decision-makers and end-users in 10 key countries revealed that most businesses expect to spend more on printing , yet make
Shadi Bakhour , B2B Business Unit Director , Canon Middle East little effort to actively track that spend or manage it in an efficient and profitable manner . Managed print services , which basically refers to services offered by an external provider to optimise or manage a company ’ s document output , is not extensively used in these markets , but there is an appetite and decision makers are considering it . 26 % currently use a third party MPS solution and 28 % of decision makers say they are considering managed print services .
Canon ’ s Office Insights 2016 report studies information management and technology ’ s role in how it is managed . The study leverages findings from business decision-makers and end-users across Central and Eastern Europe , Eurasia , the Middle East and Africa .
Managed launches reputation monitoring service
Hawk-i service constantly monitors the brand reputation risk of personal social media profiles of VIPs , companies , and prominent figures
Managed FZ , a provider of cybersecurity and managed security , announced the launch of its new VIP reputation threat monitoring service , Hawk-i . This pioneering service , now generally available , has been monitoring and protecting high-profile VIP reputations and identities online since 2014 , using sophisticated and proprietary search tools and expert human analysis .
The online presence of VIPs , prominent public figures , celebrities and senior business leaders are under constant attack from fraudsters , phishers , pranksters , and social media hijackers .
These criminals use the large amounts of personal information on highly visible VIP social media accounts , and use them for many devious actions , including tricking their employees , followers and acquaintances , to click on malware , creating fake accounts that then damage the reputation of the VIPs with inappropriate content , takeover VIP accounts and put out damaging content , or use content from these accounts without permission from the VIP owners , for their own gains .
The Hawk-i service constantly monitors the brand reputation risk of personal social media profiles of VIPs , companies , and prominent figures . The
Hawk-i system goes out to various social media sites and crawls them , looking for any similarly-named profiles , any of which could be fake or fraudulent . The contents of these accounts are checked against the verified VIP accounts .
A threat level is then assigned to the discovered accounts , and further actions including take downs , are then taken as necessary . Hawk-i also monitors for unauthorised association of images and names of VIPs on various websites , domains that contain the names of the VIPs , and mentions on blogs and news sites .
All suspicious data is reviewed by Managed ’ s in-house analysts , who evaluate every account and post manually to verify the legitimacy and threat level of the content . Once the data is reviewed , and a threat score is given , the data is uploaded to a comprehensive dashboard , which shows clients focused real-time information and any new alerts . All of this is monitored 24x7x365 from Managed ’ s Dubai-based security operations centre .
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