Xerox and Information Security - Protecting Your Data So You Can Focus on What Matters: The Success of Your Business or Organization

Overview

Information is every organization’s key asset, and security is essential to the office—for documents and for any devices connected to the network. And in the 21st century, the network is the hub of virtually all business activity.

The threat is very real and the stakes are growing at exponential rates. A breach in the security of an organization’s documents can result in unauthorized use of sensitive or proprietary information. It can lead to harmful disclosure, stolen or compromised intellectual property and trade secrets. And for many organizations, these security breaches can end with costly fines and litigation, to the tune of hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars.

When it comes to networked multifunction printers, or MFPs, additional vulnerabilities can be present because these devices can print, copy, scan to network destinations, send email attachments and handle incoming and outgoing fax transmissions. For those in IT, it’s critical to the security of an organization’s network to make sure that security infractions can’t happen through network-connected MFPs—or at the devices themselves. 

After all, attacks can originate in unexpected ways:

• The phone line attached to an MFP could be used to access the network
• The web server used to manage the MFPs and printers may be vulnerable to attack
• Unprotected electronic data can be inappropriately accessed while at rest on the hard disk,or in motion to/from the device
• Malicious emails can be sent from an MFP with no audit trail

A multifunction device is a sophisticated, multiple sub-system IT platform, and meaningful security measures must comprehend every element of the platform.

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