QUOCIRCA PRINT SECURITY REPORT
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(MPS) users. However, ITDMs also recognise that AI can be a risk as well as an opportunity, with 62% reporting extreme or moderate concern that AI will be used to create further security risks. “Organisations that are highly dependent on print demonstrate their acute awareness of the impact AI could have on it,” says Louella. “There is an important role here for vendors and channel partners to ensure their messages around AI opportunities and risks are robust and reassuring in equal measure.” Benefits not being realised Elsewhere in the report, organisations using MPS said they had much greater satisfaction with their print supplier’s security capabilities, with 43% saying they were very satisfied compared to only 23% of organisations not using MPS. This correlation holds true over confidence in print infrastructure security, with 21% of MPS users saying they are completely confident, compared to only 18% of non-MPS users.
Organisations using standardised print fleets are less likely to report one or more print-related breaches (59%) than those operating multivendor fleet (70%). However, fewer organisations now operate standardised fleets; 73% now say they operate a mixed fleet, up from 69% in 2023. Furthermore, organisations operating a mixed fleet expect to deploy more on-premise print servers in the coming year – 68% state that they will increase the number of print servers, compared with only 34% of those with a standardised fleet. “Alongside a lack of standardisation we are also seeing organisations reticent about moving to cloud print management, with cited reasons including security concerns, perceived lack of functionality and cost,” says Louella. “These should all be easy for channel partners to overcome, but it seems clear that a complex, multi-vendor, hybrid cloud print environment is the prevailing approach right now, making management more difficult.”
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