COMMENT
Safety first The losses recorded by the Co-op in the cyberattack it suffered earlier this year are huge and demonstrate how devastating a breach can be. It also shows the importance of cybersecurity for all parts of the network, which print resellers need to consider.
Listening to the news on the radio as I write this column, it has emerged that the Co-op says it has lost £206 million in revenues because of the cyberattack the
Security is also paramount in document management solutions for legal and financial businesses, given the confidential nature of much of their work. As demand for document management solutions increases in these sectors, security must be a
Dan Parton
company suffered in April. The loss is a mind-boggling amount – and it could yet get worse as the figures only cover the first six
consideration, but there is much more that customers want from their solutions, which resellers must be
months of the year and it is anticipated
the attack will have an impact on the business in the second half of 2025 too.
alive to. Read more on p43. Another area of the print sector that is growing is smart labelling. Labels are becoming increasingly important in the supply chain, and they are carrying much more information than ever before. This presents opportunities for resellers because smart labels need to be printed by printers that can cope with these increased expectations. Read more on p46. In all these situations, customers look to resellers as trusted partners to help secure the right solution – now and into the future. As always, I hope you enjoy the issue. Print in the Channel is for everyone involved in print, so if you have a topic you wish to see covered in a future issue – or you have a press release or an idea for an opinion piece – please drop me a line at dan@newsinthechannel.com n
While a company as big as the Co-op can continue despite the huge hit to its revenues, a similar scope of attack in a smaller business could easily be fatal – and it has been. Transport business KNP – most famous for its Knights of Old brand – went out of business last year, largely down to the effects of a cyberattack. It shows the importance of cybersecurity to businesses and, while it is has been a must-have for years now, some haven’t been meticulous in ensuring that all their devices – such as networked MFPs – are as secure as possible, thus leaving a potential route in for bad actors. But there are plenty of ways that it can be ensured that MFPs are as secure as possible, which are explored from p24.
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