Evaluating Printer Security Features

Limiting attack vectors and blast radius of a printer compromise

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This is a hiatus from my current blog series, Security Metrics Automation, because I’ve recently had a printer bite the dust and have been reviewing printer security specifications. With all the frustrating things I run across in relation to security and technology and broken things lately, I was recently pleasantly surprised with a new printer I purchased. It has a feature I love which a lot of printers are advertising right now.

Printers are known to offer attackers particularly damaging security gaps as I wrote about in my book, Cybersecurity for Executives in the Age of Cloud. They generally need to connect to the Internet to get software updates. They also need to be accessible from every device on your network that needs to print. On many home networks they are connected to a wi-fi…