Inspired by the most recent WikiLeaks controversy, Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) hosted a free webinar to educate professionals on the security solutions available to help protect from leaks originating within the organization. Bill Blake, document security specialist, president and COO of eDocument Sciences, LLC, and a key Toshiba business partner, shared strategies on how to effectively control and protect an organization's mission-critical information and how to avoid a WikiLeak-type disaster.

Recent events surrounding the unauthorized release of sensitive and confidential government information have shined a spotlight on the need for organizations to protect documents and information from internal, as well as external threats.

"In the past, many companies worried about strengthening their firewall security to protect their confidential information from outside threats or hackers," said Bill Melo, vice president, Marketing, Services and Solutions, TABS. "While we hope that everyone who's given access to sensitive information will keep it confidential, that's just not always the case. Businesses must begin to pay greater attention to internal risks and employ more document-specific security solutions."

Toshiba offers customers persistent document security through encryption technologies that limit document access and rights with Fasoo digital rights management solutions.  Administrators can easily control access to Microsoft Office documents, PDFs, engineering drawings, images and other common file formats. They decide who can view, edit or print the documents and for how long and can even revoke access to a document after it's distributed.

In the United States alone, companies lose more than $600 billion a year due to fraud. The demand for safer information sharing is also increasing dramatically as more organizations adopt Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems. Existing security measures within ECM applications provide insufficient document protection when files are opened and shared with external third parties. Lack of adequate document security exposes companies to significant risk and litigation if there is a breach of critical information. In addition to the innate desire to protect one's information and business, demand is also increasing due to recently passed federal regulations.

For more information and to hear a recording of the webinar, please visit: http://copiers.toshiba.com/usa/security/wikileaks.html

About Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc.

Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) is an independent operating company of Toshiba Corporation, the seventh largest electronics/electrical equipment  company in the world. TABS is a leading provider of managed print and professional services (MPS and PS), and manages product planning, marketing, sales, service, support and distribution of copiers, facsimiles, multifunction printing products, network controllers, and toner products throughout the United States, Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean. MPS and PS are strategic focus areas for the company, which first developed and began marketing the Encompass^TM MPS program in 2003. Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TABS has five divisions:  the Electronic Imaging Division; the Toner Products Division; the Document Solutions Engineering Division; the International Division; and Toshiba Business Solutions (TBS), a wholly-owned subsidiary corporation of TABS, that operates a network of wholly-owned office equipment dealers throughout the United States.

Honored with the Channel's Choice top award for "Superior Performance" eleven times by the Business Technology Association (BTA), Toshiba's entire product line, customer support and marketing distribution policies are markers for the industry. For more information on Toshiba products, programs, solutions and services, please visit www.copiers.toshiba.com.