Mobile printing’s hidden security risks
There’s just no stopping the BYOD tsunami, especially in light of statistics such as those from IDC, which indicate shipments of tablet PCs to South Africa increased an astounding 107.1 percent year-on-year in the final quarter of 2013.
09 April 2014
And while there’s been much talk about the security implications of BYOD, often missed are the vulnerabilities imposed by mobile printing – from transmitting confidential or proprietary data over unsafe corporate WiFi networks, to physical printed pages. What’s to stop an unauthorised person from reading restricted data printed out on a remote printer? Are South African corporates addressing the significant risks of mobile printing?
A true enterprise-grade mobile printing service would marry the robustness and security of an enterprise network with the simplicity and convenience of the Apple AirPrint workflow, providing:
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