Mike Feldman 
Vice President and General Manager
Enterprise Sales and Services
IPG-Americas

We know that businesses spend untold time and money waging war daily against PC and network attacks.  Smart CIOs, IT and facility managers are now looking beyond disk drives and databases, and beginning to tackle the huge challenge of securing business documents, printer fleets and the information streaming through their document workflow systems.  Less obvious?  Yes - but also critical to the health and welfare of your corporation. 

At HP, we are beginning to see our more forward-thinking customers include document security within their RFPs.  These technology leaders are just like you - faced with shrinking budgets and hard decisions: Where do I cut? Where do I spend?   Faced with these hard choices, it is clear to me that the smart ones are placing a premium on security of their entire IT environment – including their imaging and printing infrastructure.  They know that it is imperative that the information flowing through their enterprise printing fleet is secure.

If you haven’t started to address this nagging concern, I simply do not think you can afford to lag behind any longer.  

The resources are in place to help guide you through the process.  

HP can help you address imaging and printing security threats, risks and vulnerabilities, compliance and privacy concerns, and how to implement a secure environment.  As a first step, I urge you to visit the HP site dedicated to imaging and printing security.

Also, Gartner analyst Don Dixon has released a new report, “Securing Your MFP and Printer Is More Relevant Than Ever,”* a great overview of the steps enterprises can take to alleviate document security concerns.  I urge you all to take a look. 

*Gartner - Publication Date: 12 June 2009 ID Number: G00168086