Printers are no longer mere devices: they’re connected endpoints and real targets of any attack. With that idea, Tiago Pereira, Print Portugal Category Manager, and Henar Bonet, HP’s Print Spain Contractual Category Manager, begin by explaining why security “does not start in software; it starts in the BIOS.” They review the three layers of HP Wolf Security: Sure Start, which restores the BIOS if someone tries to corrupt it; whitelisting, which only allows authorized firmware to run; and intrusion detection, which alerts IT before data can be compromised.
They also illustrate the concept with a real-world case: a compromised firmware update arrives and the printer blocks it, self-recovers, and notifies IT without interrupting any business processes.
They also unveil the world’s first printers with hardware-integrated, quantum-resistant cryptography designed to withstand quantum computing threats.
