FollowMe® Printing - Secure Encrypted Printing from the Workstation to the Printer
Ringdale was first in the year 2000 to provide full encryption from the workstation to the server, the server to the disk, and
the server to the printer. This allows organizations with high security needs to apply full encryption, comprehensive and enforcible
policies from the originating workstation coherently to any printing device in a multi vendor environment.
The FollowMe® Secure server based software allows you to make your print server hardware a traditional print server with strong security.
Using the unique FollowMe E-Line controller that can be located at or in the printer, can receive a FIPS 140-2* encrypted print and send it decrypted to any printer.
As the E-Line controller has Ethernet-In and Ethernet-Out it will work with any Ethernet network connected printer or MFP.
The E-Line device is unique as it uses the printer's IP address (requiring no additional IP address), reducing IT networking overheads.
The E-Line device also has
two USB inputs allowing the connection of the widest range of authentication methods available today and seamless integration with any industry
standard corporate access control and identification system, including dual factor and triple factor authentication.
On some printing platforms such as HP and Ricoh, Ringdale has developed Embedded clients which either replace the E-Line authentication controller allowing for direct authentication
via the printer or MFP the MFP or work in conjunction with with the E-Line to provide print encryption and authentication.
Both Ringdale's FollowMe Embedded and E-Line controllers can be configured so that the security policies can not be
circumvented. Case on case you may want to allow a printer in a secure environment to be printed to directly with or without
security credentials where in other locations you want to absolutely enforce authentication without the possibility of circumvention. Ringdale's FollowMe
Secure Printing System can achieve both.
As FollowMe release stations do not use commonly used operating systems like Unix or Windows, they are inherently more secure as they
do not have any commonly known way of attacking them, other than denial of service attacks which do not compromise data security.
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Federal Information Processing Standard 140-1 (FIPS 140-1) and its successor
FIPS 140-2 are US Government standards that provide a benchmark for implementing
cryptographic software. They specify best practices for implementing crypto
algorithms, handling key material and data buffers, and working with the
operating system.
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