THE BLUEPRINT
Large manufacturer centralises
printing after cyber-attack
A fully new and secure print infrastructure with less print servers and centralised control
T he customer is a large global manufacturer of a variety of products , including forest products , polymers , building materials and life sciences . The company has 8,000 employees distributed over 250 subsidiaries in 50 countries with an annual turnover of US $ 45 billion . They had 7,000 Windows clients and used SAP as well as many other bespoke back-end printing applications for critical business printing . Reporting was done from different systems and applications .
After a ransom malware attack the 100 Windows print servers were forced to be taken offline . They faced an enormous loss of infrastructure and data , including all knowledge of their entire global printer infrastructure . There was no server printing in place and SAP printing was only allowed through a known and a minimum number of users for security purposes . There was no tracking available of any kind .
device . After obtaining the overview , they could import the devices into the centralised management console of the LRS software .
After the cyber-attack 100 print servers were shut down and needed to stay offline for security reasons ( re-contamination ). Building new servers opened up an opportunity for print server consolidation . The new LRS infrastructure would only have one central server hosted in Azure with VPSX Enterprise and MFPsecure / Print applications installed along with a dedicated SQL Server for Innovate Audit reporting . �
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To find and map the print fleet , the LRS printer discovery tool was used to discover all devices globally . The information provided by the tool included the type and manufacturer for each
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