HP Innovation Journal Issue 09: Spring 2018 | Page 21

Printer Security Securing Data
While many IT departments apply rigorous security stan-
dards to PCs, tablets, and other personal devices, they
often overlook other devices on the network—first among
them, the printer. In a recent survey of 300 enterprise IT
decision-makers, only 41 percent of respondents reported
using network security on printers, as compared with 83
percent securing desktops/laptops, and 55 percent for
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mobile devices .
HP is strengthening the defense by engineering business
printers that are secure by design, with powerful layers of
protection for the device, its data, and printed documents. HP business printers protect data through strong encryp-
tion with data in transit and at rest, as well as managed
services to help ensure systems are deployed securely.
• Encryption: HP ensures that data, whether at rest or
in transit to and from printers, is encrypted and safe
from interception

Securing Devices
Only HP designs business printers that are hardened and
self-healing, with embedded features and add-on solutions
to protect from threats throughout their lifecycle and help
organizations defend their printers and networks.
HP printers have layers of security that provide
in-depth defenses such as real-time threat detection, auto-
mated monitoring, and software validation to stop threats
the moment they start:
• HP Sure Start enables detection of, and self-healing
recovery from, malicious BIOS (firmware) attacks 

• Whitelisting ensures only known, good firmware can
be loaded and executed on a printer 

• Run-time Intrusion Detection provides in-device
memory monitoring for malicious attacks, and pro-
vides incident details for selected SIEM tools
• Connection Inspector monitors outbound network con-
nections, inspects packets, and stops suspicious packets 

• Authentication: HP printer features and solutions let
you limit or allow access to printer functions by user,
and authorize who can configure printer settings
• HP Access Control provides authentication, authori-
zation, and secure pull printing capabilities, with a
simple swipe of a proximity card or smart card 

• Secure mobile printing solutions (HP Jet Advantage
Connect, HP Access Control) 

Securing Printed Documents
HP helps businesses ensure that documents are protected,
and only those who should be able to access them do.
• HP Pull Print solutions prevent sensitive documents
from being left in the printer output tray 

• Counterfeit solutions avoid tampering and fraud of
sensitive documents 

• HP Data Protection solutions prevent unauthorized
printing of sensitive documents and provide forensics
reporting of print, scan, copy and fax activity. HP is the
first company to offer you the capability to stop a print
job that contains patterns of interest, like “confiden-
tial”, internal code names, or social security numbers
before the document is printed
• Futuresmart firmware protects the customer’s fleet
of HP Enterprise printers by updating them with new
security features 

• HP JetAdvantage Security Manager automatically
brings printers into compliance to a customer-specific
security policy and configures device identity certifi-
cates on the printer 

1. Gemalto 2. Center for Strategic and International Studies 3. Center for Strategic
and International Studies  4. Spiceworks survey of 309 IT decision-makers in North
America, EMEA, and APAC, on behalf of HP, November 2016
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