Cybersecurity - A Change of Focus

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The line between personal and work use of devices has never been so blurred. Now employees need laptops and printers not only to work with important files and documents, but also to order goods from online stores, search for information about leisure activities and help children with homework.

But how many employees, when sending a draft contract to print for proofreading or opening an unknown link on a laptop, think about the risks they expose themselves and their employers to?

Often, owners of small and medium-sized businesses carelessly assume that hackers only target large companies. However, any information that has commercial value can be the target of an attack. For example, personal data of employees, customer bases, or confidential information about financial transactions, including passport data and credit card numbers of customers.


By leaving the secure perimeter of corporate networks, millions of people have put their companies' confidential data at risk. IT specialists are unable to fight the "windmills" - numerous vulnerabilities of home austria whatsapp data networks. The situation has become so aggravated that at the end of last year, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced the creation of a cyber police within its structure, since in the context of the pandemic, against the background of a stable overall crime rate, the number of cybercrimes in the first half of 2020 increased by 91.7% compared to the same period in 2019.

It’s time for every manager to take a responsible approach to choosing secure work devices for their employees: be it PCs or endpoints, including printers, which are the real “Achilles heel” of IT infrastructures. Printing devices have their own operating system and can become an easy conduit to the organization’s data. Most devices do not have mechanisms for protection and automatic recovery in the event of an intrusion. Unsecured printers usually have outdated firmware, do not require access control, transmit data over the network in an unencrypted form, and remain open to dangerous network protocols.