Katyusha Ai Ti: Monitoring and Protection

"Monitoring and Protection" is a fully functional system for managing a fleet of printing equipment created in Russia. As of June 2020, the solution allows you to manage the print policies of more than 18 thousand printers and MFIs in real time. In total, more than 250 million documents are processed per year using the solution.

2021

OS Compatibility AlterOS

Company Katyusha"" and Group of Companies ALMIS confirmed the compatibility ON of "Monitoring and Protection" operating system AlterOS with and entered into a technology partnership agreement. The cooperation of companies will expand the ecosystem of products produced by the Russian developers as part of the implementation of the program in import substitution , ALMI RUSSIAN FEDERATION announced this on October 28, 2021.

Partnership with the developer of IT solutions in the field of printing is very important for us, since the compatibility of our operating system with Monitoring and Protection software will create an opportunity for AlterOS users to optimize the fleet of printing devices and its processes, reducing costs by 30%, "commented Yulia Tarasova, head of the ALMIs Group implementation department.

It is very important that the Russian OS has the necessary functionality, not inferior to import analogues, to ensure the continuity of business processes and sustainable development. As part of the import substitution program in Russia, the ALMIs Group of Companies is a partner that successfully adapts to the needs of the domestic market. As part of this adaptation, we are pleased to announce the signing of a certificate confirming the compatibility of Monitoring and Protection software with OS, AlterOS said Nail Yaparov, head of the information products development department of KATYUSHA.

As part of a secure corporate print solution

The Russian company Katyusha Ai Ti"" has created a secure solution for corporate printing on full the Russian components: it is a print server based on processor Baikal-M the V8 architecture ARM and the motherboard "" under the Edelweiss control of the Astra Linux Novorossiysk operating system with pre-installed software print management "Monitoring and Protection" at the Russian kernel company's own development. This was announced on April 19, 2021 by the company. Baikal Electronics

The print server is a software and hardware complex that allows you to manage the company's printing infrastructure of any scale. It monitors the status of print devices, monitors consumables, and secures documents that have been printed. With a built-in terminal, the system is easily integrated into any print fleet to provide unified management of copy, scan, and print jobs.

"Monitoring and Protection" is an application that improves the functionality of MFIs, printers and their interacting elements. This software ensures the security and protection of sensitive data and device monitoring: it allows you to control the consumption of cartridges, track device counters, data on the volume of printing of employees. The system has built-in reporting modules that can accurately predict the consumables required for the order, report on the number of printed pages and their cost, etc.

The decision to develop a Russian print server is a response to the requests of our customers. The software and hardware complex was created R&D in the center of KATYUSHA AI Ti and meets all the requirements of the program import substitution conducted. Government of the Russian Federation Now Russia it has its own development, which allows you to carry out a seamless transition in accordance with the requirements, for states a company of any scale and direction. Ease of use in any heterogeneous systems, reliability and safety of printing processes, high energy efficiency and transparency of operation and management of the printing fleet - these are the principles that guided KATYUSHA AI TI when creating the solution. The -M processor is Baikal the real heart of this system. The joint work allowed us to provide customers with development with functionality that is not inferior to foreign software solutions, "comments Nail Yaparov KATYUSHA AI Ti, head of the information products development department.

We expect that a partnership with KATYUSHA Ai ti will help us in our key task - to market a wide range of devices on Baikal processors, "says Andrei Evdokimov, CEO of Baikal Electronics. - To effectively replace imported solutions with domestic ones, it is necessary to form a fully Russian technological stack of equipment and software, and we are actively developing in this direction.

2020

"Monitoring and Protection" 2.9.0: Ability to control printing equipment from a smartphone

On July 2, 2020, it became known that the Russian developer of office printing solutions Katyusha AI Ti presented the next version of the Monitoring and Protection software product 2.9.0.

A key feature of the version is a mobile application for directing print jobs to any convenient printer.

The user no longer needs to think about which device to send the task to, he can select a printer or MFU immediately before printing. To do this, it is enough to scan the QR code on the device housing using the Monitoring and Protection mobile application.

This solution does not require additional hardware, smart cards, or passwords. The solution works with printers and MFIs of all major manufacturers of printing equipment.

In addition to mobile print management, in "Monitoring and Protection" 2.9.0. implemented user authentication through Active Directory and added support for a number of HP and OKI MFUs.

{{quote 'Device authorization is the most popular feature in print management. We offer customers several scenarios, including authorization using an application on a smartphone, the use of contactless cards, PIN codes, as well as user recognition using machine vision technology - commented Maxim Vinogradov, sales director of KATYUSHA Ai Ti. }}

Using ABBYY FineReader Server to Detect Sensitive Information

Katyusha Ai Ti, a Russian manufacturer of MFIs and corporate printing management programs, has become a certified partner of ABBYY, a developer of solutions in the field of intelligent information processing and business process analysis. This became known on June 17, 2020. As part of the collaboration, Katyusha AI Ti will offer customers intelligent print control solutions that will recognize sensitive information in documents and prevent the leakage of corporate data on paper. The need for such products for information security is noted by more than 58% of large Russian companies.

The company plans to use the ABBYY FineReader Server solution as part of its Monitoring and Protection product to recognize texts in documents submitted for printing, and then determine whether confidential information is not in files - for example, client data or trade secrets. ABBYY technologies allow you to work with any type of file, including graphic formats: PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PPT and many others. If violations are detected, the information security department will receive an automatic notification with information about the print job, which will quickly stop the leak. "Monitoring and Protection" supports the operation of equipment of all popular manufacturers and allows you to connect up to 1 million print devices using minimal software resources.

Information security is a top priority for many of our customers. This is especially true of state and medical organizations, for which it is important first of all to protect the interests of citizens and patients. With the help of ABBYY technologies, the process of controlling the printing of all office documents, including images, will become fast, safe and convenient, "comments Maxim Vinogradov, sales director of Katyusha AI Ti.