Avanquest UK and Intelligent Output Solutions have
jointly authored a free guide to data security targeted at
SMEs.
With nearly 70% of recently surveyed companies in the UK lacking
a data encryption strategy, Avanquest and IOS have launched the
publication to explain how to make data secure and to reduce the
costs associated with traditional PKI encryption.
Avanquest and IOS said that even though the business world was
employing increasing levels of capacity, and transferring more data
via e-mail and removable media than ever before, firms should be
aware that high-tech crime was on the increase, and companies were
losing substantial amounts of time and money to laptop theft, data
loss and misuse of important business information.
Stewart Rogers, director at Intelligent Output Solutions, said
that implementing public key infrastructure (PKI) solutions within
the SME marketplace was not necessarily the best approach.
“Traditional PKI schemes can be extremely expensive and often
require year-on-year administration,” he said. “This new guide
covers some of the shortfalls and costs associated with traditional
PKI approaches, and compares them against solid non-PKI
technologies. By looking at different encryption schemes, Avanquest
and IOS aim to provide clients, both large and small, with an
independent and informed view.”
Giles Forrester, product manager for PC Guardian encryption
software at Avanquest, said, “We’re pleased to have worked on this
guide with IOS. Their approach in challenging the traditional PKI
security systems that have made the headlines for good and bad
reasons of late makes sense to us and our clients. Paying once for
a security product and leaving it to work, day in and day out, has
got to provide a bigger return on investment than a ‘regular
administration’ solution.”
Avanquest is a supplier of best-of-breed enterprise solutions,
and Intelligent Output Solutions is a provider of document output,
document management and business communications.