Networking and security expert Mark Gibbs discusses the evolution of multifunction devices (MFDs) and explains why it’s crucial for large enterprises to “lockdown” their MFDs using software like the Xerox and McAfee security solution. / Xerox Newsroom

Today's sophisticated multifunction devices are, in reality, powerful server platforms engineered to handle large-scale document input and output tasks on behalf of large groups of enterprise and Small to Medium Business (SMB) users which means they handle large amounts of corporate data.