#mfp security

New Canon Survey Reveals Vulnerabilities in Companies’ Security Strategy

Noting that while digital technologies help companies work smarter, they can also result in security vulnerabilities that can cost them money, time, intellectual property, and customer trust, Canon U.S.A. today released its latest Office of the Future survey. The survey found that all organizations surveyed across a range of vertical markets experienced a cyber threat over the past year.

In its…

This Week in Imaging: A Closer Look at Printer/MFP Security

With news about serious security breaches steadily streaming across our desktops, the importance of cyber security continues to increase more and more. Unfortunately, many users have a hard time seeing their printers and copier/MFPs as cyber-security risks, even though most are now network- and Internet-connected.

That means, for instance, that if a cyber-attacker breaches a network-connected…

Ricoh MFP User Credentials, Passwords, Exposed in Data Breach

GovInfoSecurity reports that Ricoh Australia has notified banks, government agencies, universities, and various large businesses about an MFP data breach that, in some cases, exposed MFP login user credentials and passwords for Rioch MFPs.

Documents called run-up guides were exposed on the Internet and indexed by Google’s search engine.  Run-up guides that describe how an MFP has been…

New Canon imageWARE Secure Adudit Manager Express V2.1 Audits MFP Document Activity

April 15, 2015 – Canon U.S.A. reports that its new imageWARE Secure Audit Manager (SAM) Express V2.1, a security software solution designed for auditing documents processed by supported Canon MFPs, is now available.

Canon notes that, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC), 80 percent of organizations expect to suffer at least one successful attack causing serious harm that…

On November 8th, Fuji Xerox of Japan issued a press release stating that information recorded by its MFPs will be secure as long as appropriate security settings are configured and the MFP is connected to a secured network with a firewall.

If the MFP is…