Symphion CEO Jim LaRoe discusses one of the most overlooked cybersecurity and outage threats in enterprise IT: printer and connected IoT endpoints. While printers account for nearly 20% of network-connected devices, most remain deployed (and managed) at factory default settings, unpathed, unhardened and not monitored for change.
Jim explains how printers, while managed for supplies and uptime, have been left out of cyber security controls. Primer OEMs have built in advanced business enabling capabilities including security controls, but they have not been used. A major hurdle has been the IoT disparity of printer operating systems even in the same brand with, no common management capabilities. Risks range from revenue disruption to network outages, particularly in healthcare where printers are essential to patient care and revenue workflows. He also shares how Symphion operationalizes and delivers a continuous, complete program of cyber hygiene across all printer brands, models, ages, firmware version and types of printers and other connected IoT like cameras, with no operational lift for customers.
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