Today’s network printers may still look like printers and copiers, but they have hard drives — which means that, like desktop, notebook and server computers, and external storage, they can contain sensitive data, which should not be accessible to inappropriate users.
One company that’s helping raise awareness of the issue, problems and solutions of data residing on printers and MFPs is Xerox Corporation, with an ongoing series of webinars and other events, including the webinar “Hard Disk Security Webinar: Is your confidential data at risk?” which the company conducts a few weeks ago for resellers, and has scheduled one for customers, for Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 10AM PT.
I spoke last week with one of the scheduled speakers, Larry Kovnat, Manager, Product Security at Xerox Corporation.
Because these devices have hard drives and CPUs, Kovnat points out. “This makes them intelligent nodes. We try and make sure people look at it this way.”
Via: informationweek.com