CDW and HP Team Up to Orchestrate Network Printer Security
Legendary college basketball coach Bobby Knight once said, “The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.” Indeed, surviving March Madness to become an NCAA champion is all about preparing – orchestrating the diverse skills of your players with the proper training and strategies that will yield winning results. It’s much the same with managing data security in today’s hyper- connected world. You need to prepare for any eventuality, and that means orchestrating expertise, tools, partners and strategies to ensure that critical information is protected – especially in printers at the vulnerable edges of the network.
DATA SECURITY: A GROWING CHALLENGE
Many business, government, education, healthcare, energy, sports and retail organizations are meeting the data security challenge with leading technology solutions provider CDW, whose client list spans the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the EU, the UAE, South Africa, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia. The result is a championship strategy – one that orchestrates data security solutions with the world’s most secure printers from HP.
Protecting confidential information across multiple devices and environments is not a trivial matter, with hundreds of cyberattacks exposing millions of personal records each year. In May 2016, a breach of 117 million email and password combinations from Linkedin were made public online, and in September, Yahoo! announced that a hacker had stolen information from a minimum of 500 million of its accounts in late 2014.
Global cyber-thieves are expected to get even more sophisticated in the year ahead, with 73% of CISOS expecting a major security breach within a year, according to a survey published by Help Net Security, while 53% of IT managers recognize that printing and imaging devices are especially threatened by cybercrime, according to a recent Ponemon Institute study.
ORCHESTRATING SECURE PRINTING
Fortunately, CDW’S multitiered solutions bring forward expertise with HP secure printers to provide end-to-end imaging and printing security strategy – coordinated protection of devices, data and documents, plus comprehensive security monitoring and management solutions. Key features on HP Enterprise and HP Pro lines include: • HP Sure Start: This validates the integrity of the device’s BIOS code on each startup. (HP Enterprise)
• Whitelisting: Checks firmware during startup to ensure that it is authentic, digitally signed by HP. (HP Enterprise)
• Run-time Intrusion Detection: Constantly monitors and detects anomalies during complex firmware and memory operations. (HP Enterprise)
• Secure Boot: Validates the integrity of the boot code at every boot cycle. (HP Pro)
• Firmware Integrity Validation: Validates firmware updates prior to being loaded. (HP Pro)
• Run-time Code Integrity: Prevents intruders from introducing malicious code while the printer is running. (HP Pro)
Combined with HP’S cloud-based Jetadvantage print management platform and CDW’S guidance, these provide the strategic foundation to assess, manage and fortify enterprise security.
PREPARATION EQUALS SUCCESS … AND SECURITY
Preparation and orchestration are the keys to success with any team, whether it’s in basketball or IT security. CDW has spent decades orchestrating technology solutions for its clients, including the NCAA. Combining its decades of expertise with industry-leading partners such as HP has proven to be a championship strategy for CDW and the organizations it serves.