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With the enterprise content management market expansion, the new printing and scanning solutions, applications and communication technologies, challenge the clear advantages of electronic documents by a wide range of new threats. All risks and opportunities related to the new roles, paper media plays in today's business environment, should be understood and managed with a particular focus on the security of paper documents and conversion of paper content into the electronic form.

While deploying a secure and efficient ECM system, IT managers should consider management of paper documents as an integral part of their content management strategy.

Working with electronic documents brings not only a new level of work efficiency and cost savings, but also a new quality in securing electronic documents themselves and the process of transferring and processing single documents. Unlike signatures written by hand, electronic signatures brings three key attributes – authenticity, integrity and non-repudiation of signer.

QSign™ is a set of solutions certified by NSA that comprehensively work with documents signed by a certified electronic signature. According to IDC research, the consumption of paper has grown with the growth of the amount of information captured and this trend is expected to continue over the next decade.

The increased volume of paper in the modern office environment will inevitably bring about a wide range of challenges for IT managers: Organizations are increasingly required to securely manage a greater volume of content in their day-to-day business. Protection of hardcopy documents is no less important than securing electronic documents as enterprises should focus on the security of content irrespective of the document format.

While electronic enterprise content management (ECM) systems offer a wide range of encryption and secured document circulation features, paper media does not allow the use of such protection techniques. Once the document is printed on paper, its content is exposed to an extensive number of security threats that cannot be easily addressed. As information contained within electronic and paper documents ranks among the most important assets of any company, the content has to be carefully secured.

PDMark® is a unique technology, which main contribution is the ability to detect subsequent modification of printed (visible data) against the original data with 100% certainty. Automatic verification of the authenticity of the document’s contents allows one to verify whether the original contents have been modified in an automatic mode without any need for human intervention.