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Unprepared for Data Breaches

Nov 29, 2018

  • 45% of Kiwi businesses ‘unprepared’ for data breaches
  • Half of Kiwi companies lacking in cyber security confidence
“The consequences of a data breach are severe; from financial to brand and reputation damage,” says HP New Zealand managing director Grant Hopkins. “Organisations need to be vigilant about implementing processes that regularly monitor, detect and report data breaches. Running regular risk assessments and managing your endpoint security is critical in keeping businesses data safe.

Many IT departments tend to focus their efforts around PCs, tablets and other connected devices, but they neglect one of the largest areas of vulnerability: the printer.

The study found that New Zealand businesses have printers that are relatively insecure with 30% not offering any security features and only 35% of businesses including printers in their IT security assessment. Without embedded security measures like real-time threat detection, automated monitoring, and data encryption, printers are left open and vulnerable to attack. Not only does this make the confidential and sensitive documents that are printed, scanned and copied by the printer easily accessible for hackers, but risks the entire network being hacked, while bypassing the firewall altogether.


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