Office Automation Security

The concept of office automation has grown markedly over the last ten years; it now encompasses far more than photocopiers, word processing, and local accounting functions. A modern automated office may comprise a wide range of user workstations, linked via a local area network (LAN) to file servers and gateways to main computer systems. The range of software systems on the workstations have expanded to include desktop publishing, electronic mail, secretarial services such as schedule and diary planners, project planning, costing systems, financial planning, etc. In many cases the data is downloaded from corporate databases held on mainframe computers.