Print Security: Seeing and Managing Your Multifunction Printers (MFPs)

Given that most organizations have already made endpoint security a priority, Aberdeen's research helps to make the case for why they should expand their thinking about "endpoints" to include printers and print services. Modern multifunction printers (MFPs) are in fact full-fledged endpoints on your organization's network, with all of the usual categories for endpoint-related security vulnerabilities and exploits (including network, platform, OS, applications, identities, and data) that need to be monitored and managed. 

1.85% - 3.65% - Based on their total number of employees, smaller organizations are spending a higher median percentage of their IT budgets on printers and print services (<100 employees: 3.65%; 100 to 1,000 employees: 1.85%; >1,000 employees: 2.48%)

4.5x - The empirical success rate for attackers - i.e., confirmed data breaches (successes) as a percentage of investigated incidents (attempts) - is as much as 4.5 times higher for endpoints than it is for servers

1 in 5 - More than 1 in 5 (21%) smaller organizations experienced one or more data breaches in the last 12 months

1 in 3 - About 1 in 3 (32%) smaller organizations experienced one or more security-related incidents that resulted in unplanned downtime in the last 12 months

1 in 7 - More than 1 in 7 (15%) smaller organizations experienced one or more material non-compliance issues in the last 12 months

68% - 74% - For a majority (68% - 74%) of smaller organizations, Print Security is perceived as an integral part of their leading cybersecurity strategies

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