Photocopiers aka copiers are common to every individual, government, business, healthcare, and every other industry out there. It is required every day in every region to make copies of important documents and papers which is done in seconds at a very minimal price. Chester Carlson first got the idea of copiers since he was required to do the tedious task of making a large number of copies every day at his job. Eventually, after working on the idea for a few years, Carlson with the help of Haloid came up with the first copier, and the time color copiers also came into the market by the 1960s.

However, copiers are not at all secure! Not everyone is aware of the fact that copiers are an easy source of data breaches. Since 2002, almost every copier machine contains a hard drive, just like we have it on laptops and computers that contains every document or paper ever scanned on it, it basically makes the job of making copies faster and cheaper. Hard drives make the process of producing copies of frequently required documents easier by storing an image of every document and paper copied/scanned, therefore eliminating the requirement of re-scanning the documents. But this comes at a cost of data security for every individual and business that has used these copiers to get photocopies of their documents even once. These hard drives contain personal and critical data extracted from ID documents, bank statements, social security numbers, birth certificates, income tax forms, and likewise. When it’s time to buy a new copier, the old one is either traded or sent for recycling, but most of them end up in the wholesale warehouse of used machines. The matter of concern is that those hard drives containing thousands of important documents can come into the hands of wrongdoers. For them getting access to the insider information of so many individuals is nothing less than a gold mine. Bad actors can use the personal information mentioned above to scam innocent people who have no idea that their personal information has been compromised. 

Copiers are dominant even today as copies of documents in paper format are still required when a student gets into a new school, college, or a university. It’s also required when an employee gets a job in any organization, industry, factory, or service sector. Plus, it’s definitely needed when the patient gets admitted to a hospital, or when someone is applying for passports or other government-issued IDs, and likewise. Going paperless and digital on all the above is the key to solve the prevalent issue of ID theft happening by the use of copiers. Not only does this solve the problem of a data breach but it also helps in saving tons of paper. Digitizing all these will also in automating the long procedures of paperwork and documentation.

Moreover, opting for a digital identity verification solution can secure individuals and businesses from any potential ID theft from copiers!! 

How can the organizations achieve this? 

AZYO is here to help every organization in the world with complex verification processes while making it fully automated and digital 🙂

With the power of Convolutional Deep Neural Networks, Powerful Graphical Processing Units, Advanced Machine Learning Algorithms, AI-Driven Automation, Optical Character Recognition, Blockchain, Facial Recognition & Liveness Detection, AZYO is consistently evolving to verify identities and prevent fraudsters. The solution leverages facial recognition technology that can identify people in pictures, video, or in real-time. It also includes both face identification and face verification (also called authentication). Facial verification is concerned with validating a claimed identity based on the image of a face, and either accepting or rejecting the identity claim (one-to-one matching).

In today’s digital world, it’s really easy to spoof a face recognition system through facial pictures, such as portrait photographs, AZYO has also developed a liveness detection system to kick out the bad guys. To ensure complete data security, AZYO leverages Blockchain which is one of the most secure data protection technologies. The level of security offered by a distributed ledger system offers benefits to establishing a secure data network. AZYO’s Blockchain technology is enough to address the challenge of data security and prevent malicious cyber-attacks. The level of security offered by a distributed ledger system offers benefits to establishing a secure data network.

Furthermore, AZYO’s certified internal compliance keeps personal data and sensitive information completely secured from the outside world. With multiple encryption layers and authentications, AZYO has taken enough measures to protect your critical data from destructive forces and from the unwanted action of unauthorized users, such as cyber-attack or data breaches.