What would it mean to your workplace if your secrets were revealed? Not by a hacker, mind you, but by a humble sheet of paper.
Bear in mind it’s not always malicious intent that’s the biggest threat to document security. It’s often the most trusted people in your organization who unknowingly leave documents where they shouldn’t be left.
Sound unlikely? Perhaps you’ll recall the government official accidentally leaving classified documents behind on a train.
Or the Department of Homeland Security employee who left anti-terrorism documents in the seat pocket of a plane.
That won’t happen to you, you say? What about your finance admin leaving payslips forgotten on the printer? Yes, it happens.
Document security’s weakest link
While billions of dollars are rightly invested by businesses to lock down their systems from external attacks, information on paper is the often-overlooked and weakest link in any information security chain.
