Abstract: An information processing apparatus connectable to a device includes: an acquiring unit to acquire, from the device, a display request including destination information indicating a country or an area where the device is used and indicating information for requesting an application list screen for providing an application; a specifying unit to specify, based on application compatibility information in which application identification information identifying an application available for the device is associated with the destination information, the application identification information associated with the destination information included in the display request; and a first transmitting unit to transmit, to the device, the application list screen for providing the application identified by the application identification information.

Abstract: A device management apparatus includes a setting information acquisition unit that acquires setting information of one or more security setting items from a device; a policy information acquisition unit that acquires policy information defining a single piece of compliant information, a plurality of pieces of compliant information, or a compliant range, for each security setting item; a determination unit that determines whether each of the setting information of the one or more security setting items conforms, based on the policy information; a change unit that changes, when the setting information of any security setting item does not conform, the setting information so as to conform; and a distribution unit that distributes the changed setting information of the security setting item to the device.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a user interface, circuitry, and an image forming device. The user interface receives, from an applicant, an instruction for selecting a desired application form having an entry field in which personal information is to be entered, and receives an input of individual authentication information of the applicant. The circuitry unlocks an IC card based upon the individual authentication information of the applicant to acquire personal information of the applicant from the IC card, and generates an application form for output from a template of the selected application form and the personal information acquired from the IC card. The image forming device outputs the generated application form.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus connectable to a device includes: an acquiring unit to acquire, from the device, a display request including destination information indicating a country or an area where the device is used and indicating information for requesting an application list screen for providing an application; a specifying unit to specify, based on application compatibility information in which application identification information identifying an application available for the device is associated with the destination information, the application identification information associated with the destination information included in the display request; and a first transmitting unit to transmit, to the device, the application list screen for providing the application identified by the application identification information.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus connectable to a device includes: an acquiring unit to acquire, from the device, a display request including destination information indicating a country or an area where the device is used and indicating information for requesting an application list screen for providing an application; a specifying unit to specify, based on application compatibility information in which application identification information identifying an application available for the device is associated with the destination information, the application identification information associated with the destination information included in the display request; and a first transmitting unit to transmit, to the device, the application list screen for providing the application identified by the application identification information.

Abstract: A server device that is a first-facility terminal device configured to transmit issuance information issued by a first facility to a user terminal device of a user of the first facility, includes: a first-facility encrypting unit configured to encrypt the issuance information issued by the first facility using a public key acquired from the user terminal device, and a first-facility terminal transmitting unit configured to transmit, when the user terminal device is connected to a network to which the first-facility terminal device is connected, the issuance information without encryption to the user terminal device, and to transmit, when the user terminal device is not connected to the network, the encrypted issuance information to the user terminal device.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a user interface, circuitry, and an image forming device. The user interface receives, from an applicant, an instruction for selecting a desired application form having an entry field in which personal information is to be entered, and receives an input of individual authentication information of the applicant. The circuitry unlocks an IC card based upon the individual authentication information of the applicant to acquire personal information of the applicant from the IC card, and generates an application form for output from a template of the selected application form and the personal information acquired from the IC card. The image forming device outputs the generated application form.

Abstract: A device management apparatus includes a setting information acquisition unit that acquires setting information of one or more security setting items from a device; a policy information acquisition unit that acquires policy information defining a single piece of compliant information, a plurality of pieces of compliant information, or a compliant range, for each security setting item; a determination unit that determines whether each of the setting information of the one or more security setting items conforms, based on the policy information; a change unit that changes, when the setting information of any security setting item does not conform, the setting information so as to conform; and a distribution unit that distributes the changed setting information of the security setting item to the device.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus connectable to a device includes: an acquiring unit to acquire, from the device, a display request including destination information indicating a country or an area where the device is used and indicating information for requesting an application list screen for providing an application; a specifying unit to specify, based on application compatibility information in which application identification information identifying an application available for the device is associated with the destination information, the application identification information associated with the destination information included in the display request; and a first transmitting unit to transmit, to the device, the application list screen for providing the application identified by the application identification information.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is disclosed that includes an expiration detection unit that detects expiration of a certificate used for verifying the validity of software; a software verification unit that verifies the validity of the software using the certificate; and a storage unit in which the certificate is stored. In the apparatus, the software verification unit previously stores a value uniquely calculated from the software in the storage unit when the certificate has not expired and the software is valid, and verifies the validity of the software using the value uniquely calculated from the software where the certificate has expired or the software is invalid.

Abstract: A document security system is disclosed. In the document security system, when a user is permitted to use a device and to use a document, a process for the document requested by a user is executed by the device. Further, after executing the process, a follow-up obligation is executed corresponding to the type of the document obtained from image data of the document.

Abstract: In a document protecting system, a distributor terminal implementing a document protecting program obtains an encryption key to encrypt a document file, associates a print request to the document file, and encrypts the document file by the encryption key. And a user terminal implementing a document printing program obtains a decryption key of document file being encrypted, decrypts the document file based on the obtained decryption key, obtains a print requirement associated with the document file, and executes a printing process so as to satisfy the print requirement.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is disclosed that includes an expiration detection unit that detects expiration of a certificate used for verifying the validity of software; a software verification unit that verifies the validity of the software using the certificate; and a storage unit in which the certificate is stored. In the apparatus, the software verification unit previously stores a value uniquely calculated from the software in the storage unit when the certificate has not expired and the software is valid, and verifies the validity of the software using the value uniquely calculated from the software where the certificate has expired or the software is invalid.

Abstract: A security value estimating apparatus for estimating a security value of an unregistered data item includes a primary data generating part for generating various types of primary data based on the unregistered data item, a data amount calculating part for calculating the value of the data amount of each type of the primary data, a similarity degree calculating part for calculating a degree of similarity of the primary data with respect to various types of secondary data that are generated based on a registered data item, a security value estimating part for estimating the security value of the unregistered data item by selecting a secondary data item from the secondary data based on the value of the data amount calculated by the data amount calculating part and the degree of similarity calculated by the similarity degree calculating part and applying the security value corresponding to the selected secondary data item.

Abstract: Security information estimating apparatus, a security information estimating method, a security information estimating program, and recording medium thereof are disclosed. The security information estimating apparatus for estimating security information of target information includes a stored information acquiring unit to acquire stored information, a target information acquiring unit to acquire the target information, a similarity determining unit to determine a degree of similarity between the stored information and the target information, and a security information output unit to select stored information, security information of which is to be applied to the target information, based on the degree of similarity, and output the selected stored information, and one of the security information and information that specifies the security information.

Abstract: In a document security management method for controlling document security across multiple domains, a domain ID is extracted from a document to be processed at an image forming and reproducing apparatus placed in a first domain. Then, it is determined at a first security server of the first domain whether the document to be processed is controlled in the first domain, based on the extracted domain ID. If the document to be processed is not controlled in the first domain, location information about a second domain that controls the document to be processed is acquired. Then, the image forming and reproducing apparatus accesses a second security server provided in the second domain to confirm permissibility of the processing of the document.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus is provided that is capable of maintaining document security control even in a case where document ID information cannot be identified from a physical document that is subject to an imaging operation.

Abstract: Identification information of a document is read from the document. At least one operation requirement is specified and selected according to a document profile related to the identification information by referring to a security policy describing a handling rule concerning the document. An operation with respect to the document is controlled according to the operation requirement.

Abstract: In a document protecting system, a distributor terminal implementing a document protecting program obtains an encryption key to encrypt a document file, associates a print request to the document file, and encrypts the document file by the encryption key. And a user terminal implementing a document printing program obtains a decryption key of document file being encrypted, decrypts the document file based on the obtained decryption key, obtains a print requirement associated with the document file, and executes a printing process so as to satisfy the print requirement.