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By Muzaffar Rizvi – Highlighting the importance of printer security, the HP executive said businesses have spent a lot of money to secure devices such as smartphones, laptops and desktops, but the same approach is not applied to protect printers from cyberattacks.
“Printers are the most commonly connected device used in most homes and almost all offices around the world, but people don’t know the risks associated with them,” Nick Lazaridis, HP president for Europe, Middle East and Africa, said.
Referring to HP research, which suggests only 53 per cent of IT managers realise that printers are vulnerable to cybercrimes, he said just two per cent of printers are secure, making them easy targets for hackers compared to other devices where security is now often built-in.
“We promote the fact that you can print remotely these days, but anything with an IP address can be hacked. Printers are now fully-functioning clients on networks, but still a lot of people don’t know the risks,” he said.
