As an IT admin, you likely spend much time contemplating the security of end-user machines and back-end systems -- yet how often do you consider the security risks posed by copy machines and other smart office devices in your office? As noted in recent reports, documents stored on these machines' internal hard drives can create security risks.

The problem is, today's office-class multifunction printers, fax machines, and copiers often have very capable computers in them, including memory, hard drives, network interfaces, and software. If you can access your printer/fax/copier using a Web browser, then it is running a Web server (often Apache or some other open source variant).

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