Jetmobile

Secure printing solution for MFPs and Printers

Printing is one of the most common methods for transmitting sensitive information, and it is unavoidable. The paperless office is a dream from the 80s that never fully materialized. However printing is a source of high costs, waste, and security risks.

• Print jobs can easily be intercepted on the network and displayed on a computer screen using a PCL or Postcript viewer.
• By checking a checkbox, print jobs flowing through a Windows print server can be archived instead of being deleted. This means an IT administrator can potentially visualize all print jobs made by top management on his PC by simply using a PCL or Postcript viewer and clicking on archived spool files.
• Print job data can also easily be altered en route to the printer. All information is clearly visible in the bytes sent to the printer. It is thus relatively easy for software to modify data, such as a changing a bank account number to another one in a wire transfer order.
• In 2007, a fraud occurred at a large investment bank in New York. An employee whose desk was near to a printer used his strategic position to provide co-conspirators with insider information on pending mergers and acquisitions. This was an ongoing scheme until the FBI finally arrested the group. For more information on this story, click here. 
• Sharing printers means that documents can be mixed up ending up in the wrong persons hands and then eventually in the wastepaper baskets, which are emptied by people that could potentially make use of such documents.

The SecureJet Enterprise solution addresses all these risks, by protecting print jobs before they reach the printer and when they reach the printer.
 

Protecting your print jobs en route to the printer:

• SecureJet Enterprise offers two types of encryption capabilities: DES and AES.
  • In DES encryption, a random key is generated for every single job and used to encrypt the document. The key is encrypted and injected in the print job on the client PC. The printer decrypts the key using decryption patterns and then decrypts the print job using the decrypted key.
  • In AES encryption, print job data is encrypted with a sophisticated AES + RSA PKI system, where each client generates its own pair of keys for top security. This makes it impossible to visualize the document if it is intercepted. 
• Encryption is performed on the client PC or in the shared print queue before any spooling happens and decryption takes place on the printer, just before conversion to dots on paper, without any spooling on the disk.  

Protecting your print jobs on the printers:

• Using SecureJet Enterprise print job retention, print jobs are not printed until their owner faces the printer, authenticates, and then requests the specific documents. As a result, documents are no longer mixed up and they are completely protected from prying eyes. In addition, printing costs can be reduced by 10% through the reduction of waste. 
• Print jobs can be retained on the printer hard drive (secure push printing) or on the print server hard drive (pull printing).
• Time limits for print job can be set. Unclaimed documents are automatically deleted when the limit is reached. This ensures sensitive documents are only available for printing for a limited time and saves money by suppressing useless printing.

Two SecureJet modules provide such services:

SecureJet Print-SMP

This SecureJet Enterprise module secures printing between the PC and printer. It makes it possible to encrypt print jobs and store them on the printer hard drive until the user releases them, at which point they are decrypted and printed.

SecureJet Print-PS

This SecureJet Enterprise module helps increase productivity and ease printing by providing print mobility for enterprise-class companies, through storage of print jobs on servers, roaming printing, and single sign-on.  It must be combined with SecureJet Print-SMP.