Samsung MFP SECURITY White Paper

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SAMSUNG MFP SECURITY WHITE PAPERPage - 23 Copyright 2014 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., All rights reserved.8. Secure DataThe “Secure Data” category of the Samsung Security Framework isdesigned to protect your valuable data from threats while it is residing orpassing through the MFP. Confidential and private data such as patientinformation, student records, client information in banks, insurancecompanies, etc. must now be protected on an MFP in the same way aserver must be protected from unauthorized access. It is no longersurprising to find MFPs and printers equipped with hard drives. These harddrives store various types of hardcopy information such as, userinformation, copy/scan/fax/print images from processed jobs, and deviceactivity logs. Some or all of the information on the hard drives need to beprotected securely. Hard drive overwriting technology and encryption are theindustry standard methods for securely protecting the data.Samsung’s “Secure Data” protects your valuable data by using advancedsecurity features like Encryption of the hard drives, scans and Network printing, and hard drive image overwriting.8.1 EncryptionEncryption is the process of changing data into useless characters that must be unscrambled by using a key. The SamsungSecure Data feature uses the following methods:• Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Encryption• Print Job Encryption• PC Scan Security• Secure PDF (PDF Encryption, Digital Signature in PDF)• Secure Email (SMTP).• E-mail Encryption8.1.1 Hard Disk Drive (HDD) EncryptionTo protect the confidentiality of the data stored on a computer HDD, encryption is used. Data on the HDD is written inplain text which makes it available for everyone to read. To prevent this from occurring, HDD encryption is required.Samsung MFPs protect data by using built-in AES-256 HDD encryption technology.