Corporate printers need protection from cyber attacks

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Sergey Stelmakh | 10/16/2019
Protecting corporate printers has become a major issue in cybersecurity, requiring businesses to rethink their infrastructure protection strategy, Techopedia reports.

Long considered the primary threat to come from offices, which are targets for cyberattacks, printers have not attracted much attention from information security teams, which are always more chile mobile database with corporate databases that store the sensitive personal data of executives and customers. Businesses may need to rethink their security strategies as Internet of Things (IoT)-connected printers increasingly expose their vulnerabilities to hackers.

How hackers steal documents
A 2019 study by Quocirc found that print infrastructure was one of the top five business challenges. It was the second-highest (66% of respondents) after public cloud (69%), with some industries including professional services, financial services and retail citing it as a top issue. The danger lies in the point where sensitive documents are sent to the printer to be converted into paper copies. Hackers are using remote attacks to intercept electronic versions of documents as they queue up for printing. They silently pause the printing, copy them and then resume it. These actions do not raise suspicion, the study says.