IT Baseline Protection Manual - The Information Warfare Site

Safeguard Catalogue - Hardware & Software Remarks
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S 4.43 Fax machine with automatic envelopment
sealing system
Initiation responsibility: IT Security Management
Implementation responsibility: Procurer
Fax machines with an automatic envelopment system prevent unauthorised
removal and reading of faxes. Incoming faxes are folded so that only the fax
header remains visible and are then heat-sealed in a clear envelope. The fax
then drops into a lockable box in the fax machine. Only the authorised person
who has a key to this box normally has access to the envelopes. Unauthorised
cognisance prior to delivery of the fax is only possible by forcibly opening the
box or tearing open the heat-sealed envelope and will thus, at the very least, be
noticed.
Additional controls:
- Is the purchase of such a machine worthwhile?
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IT-Baseline Protection Manual: Oktober 2000