NextGov: The Department of Energy’s inspector general found that none of the agency’s science offices it reviewed had fully implemented guidance for securing peripheral devices with one official saying it was technically infeasible or “extremely difficult” to comply.
Peripheral devices such as printers, scanners, copiers, fax machines, voice-over-internet-protocol phones, thumb drives and external hard drives often hold sensitive information and can be used to deliver malware to the network.
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