OEM launches M630 series, along with new security tools and tools to improve printer monitoring.
Techradar reported on the launch of HP’s M630 series of MFPs, with the devices featuring “more than 200 security settings” as the OEM focuses on improving printing security and printer fleet management.
The new security tools include the HP Imaging and Printing Security Center 2.1 (IPSC), designed to “simplify the deployment of HP printing fleets” as well as enable easier monitoring of printing fleets. Ed Wingate, HP’s Vice President and General Manager of JetAdvantage Solutions, also said that the upgrade will allow users to “add, assess and remediate devices” in an “automated fashion”
The OEM has also introduced Print Security Advisory Services to “help provide clients with an analysis of print environments in order to ensure optimal security policies”, with Michael Howard, Worldwide Security Practice Lead at HP, explaining: “It costs $136 (€105) per record violated or $5.4 million (€4.2 million) if you have a security breach […] as IT professionals we tend to look at how to secure against the bad guys moving in. In reality, 65 percent of breaches are accidental[…]it’s important to look internally to create the practices we have in hand.”
An extension of ArcSight was also released by HP, and includes “security monitoring for FutureSmart printing and multifunction devices”. Furthermore, HP’s Secure Content Management and Monitoring, along with HP’s JetAdvantage Pull Print tools can now be used “to store, audit and encrypt all content sent to printers”; with IT able to use the tools “to detect potential breaches if unwanted tasks are spotted” as well as “to prevent unauthorised access to confidential tasks”.
Wingate commented: “If you ask an IT manager how they are securing their core databases, you’ll get a long answer […] at the same time, all the same information is flowing through unstructured databases and MFPs. That information is as much of a risk as the information stored in the databases[…]no-one is really monitoring that[…]HP Secure Content Management and Monitoring allows you to [automatically scan and] look into those documents.”