Closing the security gap to protect your print environment

Cybersecurity is high on every organization’s agenda in a world of hybrid working, digital transactions, high profile data breaches, and strict data privacy rules backed by tough penalties. Despite the vast sums of money businesses spend on securing data and systems, one part of the ICT infrastructure needs more attention – namely, printing.

This isn’t surprising, given that companies have had their hands full responding to challenges such as social engineering and ransomware attacks. Yet it’s important to take note of the multiplying list of print-related attacks, with print offering an increasingly attractive surface for botnet, ransomware, and denial of surface attacks.

Even in that context, some organizations neglect the best practices and policies that apply elsewhere in their IT environments, such as insisting on complex passwords, keeping software such as drivers and firmware up to date to address new vulnerabilities, and conducting regular penetration testing. Security for these devices generally is managed separately from the tools and processes used for the rest of the organization’s perimeter and endpoint protection. It also proves difficult to implement a zero-trust policy across shared printers without harming productivity.

Source: Tech Daily Report (techdailyreport.net)

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