If you are like most businesses, you don’t see any need to secure your printers but have put aside some resources to protect your computers from hackers. This is like locking all your doors and leaving your windows wide open. Do you know unsecured printer networks can expose your business to unmanageable problems and potential loss? In the past few years, there have been multiple attacks on these networks. A teenager recently hacked over 150,000 printers accidentally, and that has helped to sensitize people about the risk of leaving unsecured printers exposed online. As such, businesses need to use more sophisticated security measures to be able to cope with the new security threat. Here are major ways unsecured printer networks can expose your business to serious attacks.(more…)
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month in the U.S., as Microsoft, Stay Safe Online and the White House recently told me. As a security professional, I am pleased to note this means people are more likely to listen to me. Ha! We’ll see. Anyway, besides talking about Fishbowl security (watch for Episode 2 in November), I’d like to take this opportunity to talk about Cyber Security in general.(more…)
If you are like most businesses, you don’t see any need to secure your printers but have put aside some resources to protect your computers from hackers. This is like locking all your doors and leaving your windows wide open. Do you know unsecured printer networks can expose your business to unmanageable problems and potential loss? In the past few years, there have been multiple attacks on these networks. A teenager recently hacked over 150,000 printers accidentally, and that has helped to sensitize people about the risk of leaving unsecured printers exposed online. As such, businesses need to use more sophisticated security measures to be able to cope with the new security threat. Here are major ways unsecured printer networks can expose your business to serious attacks. (more…)
