Most network printers in Perth offices haven’t had a firmware update in over 18 months. That single sentence summarises why printers are the second-most-attacked endpoint on the average corporate network. Below: the five most common gaps we find when we audit WA fleets, and the HP Wolf controls that close them.
1. Print jobs sitting on the output tray
An unclaimed payslip on a shared MFP is a privacy breach. Secure pull-print holds every job in a personal queue until the user authenticates at the device — phone tap, badge, or PIN.
2. Firmware that hasn’t been patched since the device was deployed
HP Wolf Pro Security ships self-healing firmware that detects tampering at boot and rolls back automatically. Combined with a central policy that enforces patch cadence, the entire fleet stays current without manual effort.
3. Cleartext print traffic on the LAN
TLS-encrypted print streams are off by default on many devices. They shouldn’t be — and on a managed fleet, they’re enforced at the policy layer, not the device.
4. Generic admin passwords
If you can guess the admin password on your printer, so can the next person. HP’s policy-managed credentials remove this entire class of risk from the fleet in one configuration pass.
5. No audit trail
Who printed what, when, from where? Most fleets can’t answer the question. Managed reporting keeps a per-user audit log that satisfies most WA compliance frameworks out of the box.