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More Than Just a Harmless Box: Making the Case for Printer

Platform Security

By Steve Inch, Global Senior Print Security Strategist & Product Management Lead at HP Inc.

These days, CISOs and their teams have their work cut out for them. It is their job to identify and reduce
security risks, as well as monitor for signs of intrusion across an ever-growing attack surface. Against
this backdrop, they are also under pressure to deliver cyber resilience and meet increasing regulatory
demands, both at a national and industry level.

But for many organizations, there is a major gap in their capabilities: printer security. Too often, printers
are overlooked as a source of cybersecurity risk. For example, researchers identified half a million
internet-connected printers that were vulnerable to hijacking.

Although IT teams spend nearly four hours a month managing hardware or firmware security, they
frequently lack the visibility and control required to mitigate security risks across their print fleets. With
the average print-related data loss costing organizations £820,000, according to the Ouocirca Print
Security Landscape 2025 report, it’s clear that printer security is an area that enterprises can’t afford to
ignore and that managing printer security well should be part of every CISO’s plan to improve cyber
resilience.

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