Printers: Necessary Evil, Forgotten Endpoints
Printers are essential for business but viewed as a necessary evil—an expense to minimize, not a critical security priority. On the path to digitization, printers have been neglected in security plans, left outside even the most basic IT best practices and dismissed as “not career-advancing technology.”
Despite that, printers still account for 20% of network endpoints and 99% of them are unprotected.
If left unprotected, all it takes is one printer to compromise your entire business, your partners and your customers, costing you millions of dollars.
Printers can become your worst nightmare.
Most Businesses Don’t… But We Do.
….Know where to start. We do.
….Understand the unique risks that printers present or how to mitigate them without disruptions. We do.
….Have the staff, expertise, technology and proven processes to protect printers and keep them protected. We do.
….Know the true cost of properly securing and maintaining a print fleet. We do.
With Symphion, you don’t need to know—we do it for you.
Turning to Symphion
Healthcare systems across the U.S., including Becker’s #1 ranked systems, are turning to Symphion to fill this cybersecurity gap in their print fleets—and keep it filled.
Symphion’s service has been seamless, professional and customer-driven. They’ve improved best practices across our large fleet and worked with our processes and culture to deliver results. Their leadership and technical teams are passionate about serving customers and driving security forward.
We needed to secure our printers to meet HIPAA requirements and address rising threats but didn’t have the resources or time to manage it internally. Symphion’s innovative ‘as a Service’ approach gave us results without surprises. They saved us over $400,000 per year compared to a manual solution—and provided expertise we couldn’t source ourselves.
Symphion has been a game-changer. We needed a reliable and comprehensive solution fast. They responded, matched our pace and processes and rapidly delivered us to a monitoring, remediation and reporting state while testing the whole time to avoid outages. Our lift was minimal. We highly recommend their service.
Symphion, The Total Program Solution
Our answer to addressing this risk is the Symphion’s total program solution: Print Fleet Cyber Security as a Service™.
What is Print Fleet Cyber Security as a Service™ ?
It is our turnkey, remotely delivered service to harden, patch, monitor, maintain and report on your entire print fleet to establish and maintain cyber hygiene for all your printers. It is a total program of standards-based best practices processes, controls, governance, assessment and reporting (proof) for all the vulnerable printer endpoints that comprise your print fleet.
Our service is priced at a per device inclusive fee, with minimum levels, for terms of 3 years.
Why a per-device inclusive fee?
A predictable per-device fee (with no hidden costs and no operational lift for your team) is essential for adoption of this essential program.
What is included in the per-device fee?
The fee includes 1) licensing of our vendor agnostic software, 2) concierge service delivery, 3) implementation, 4) IT asset lifecycle management for all your printers, 5) a program management office for the term of the contract to guide in implementing and then governing information technology and security best practices and processes, 6) testing of configuration changes and update before turning up security to avoid business disruptions and interruptions, 7) security configuration management including monitoring and automated remediation to govern, 8) firmware deployment and management, 9) security certificate deployment and management and 10) executive reporting.
Importantly, as long as the number of printers comprising the fleet remains accurate, the fee can be utilized on newly acquired printers.
What controls are included?
Our service is standards based, leveraging standards including NIST, HIPAA, DISA STIG and Symphion’s own best practices. We offer base and advanced sets of controls and can implement your chosen controls.
Why Print Fleets, Not Just Printers?
Print fleet risks go beyond individual devices. Printers are mobile, often neglected in IT processes, and managed with outdated, insecure practices. Our service is designed to address that risk by including every in scope printer in your fleet—regardless of brand, model, age, location, or firmware version—now and in the future.
Why “as a Service” delivery?
Print fleet cybersecurity requires specialized expertise and proven processes. The skills, training and expertise are not available in the labor market or with service providers and neither are the processes. We bundle it all in our seamless, remotely delivered service enabled by our vendor agnostic technology—all so you don’t have to.
Why 3-year terms?
Security is a continuous effort. Some say a journey, not a destination. Our service delivers both proactive and reactive protection as a long-term solution that adapts to your needs as they change, as an extension of your team.
Extreme, hidden risks presented by printers & print fleets.
Outage Risk/Business Interruption
The risks of attempted protection without proven process.
Common approaches and why they fail.
The importance & complexities of foundational ITAM.
What’s your lift with Symphion?
Hidden benefits of Symphion.