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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