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Alicia,<br />
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Thank you for your response. &nbsp;I think I'm going to just make SNMP more secure by assigning something besides &quot;public&quot; for the community string. &nbsp;Thoughts?<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Mike
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Alicia,

Thank you for your response.  I think I'm going to just make SNMP more secure by assigning something besides "public" for the community string.  Thoughts?

Thanks,
Mike

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I think that would work too, but that would still mean you'd have to edit the properties for every printer's port (hoping you don't have 100 printers!!)
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I think that would work too, but that would still mean you'd have to edit the properties for every printer's port (hoping you don't have 100 printers!!)

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Hello,<br />
<br />
After our security assessment here, we are tasked with either turning off SNMP on noted devices on our network, or configuring it to be more secure. &nbsp;Well, turning it off on network printers does not appear to be a viable option as doing that disallows printing all together. &nbsp;I was involved with setting up SNMP many years ago, but am just not sure how/what to do to avoid any pitfalls and continue operating as usual with no helpdesk calls and management connectivity in tact.<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
Mike
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Hello,

After our security assessment here, we are tasked with either turning off SNMP on noted devices on our network, or configuring it to be more secure.  Well, turning it off on network printers does not appear to be a viable option as doing that disallows printing all together.  I was involved with setting up SNMP many years ago, but am just not sure how/what to do to avoid any pitfalls and continue operating as usual with no helpdesk calls and management connectivity in tact.

Thanks,
Mike

SNMP setup on printers

A printer is a peripheral which makes a persistent human readable representation of graphics or text on paper or similar physical media. Traditional printers are being used more for special purposes, like printing photographs or artwork, and are no longer a must-have peripheral; 3D printing has become an area of intense interest, allowing the creation of physical objects. An image scanner is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object, and converts it to a digital image. Hand-held scanners, where the device is moved by hand, have evolved from text scanning "wands" to 3D scanners used for industrial design, reverse engineering, test and measurement, orthotics, gaming and other applications.

Printers and Scanners

A vulnerability is a weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's information assurance. Vulnerability is the intersection of three elements: a system susceptibility or flaw, attacker access to the flaw, and attacker capability to exploit the flaw. To exploit a vulnerability, an attacker must have at least one applicable tool or technique that can connect to a system weakness, known as the attack surface. Vulnerability management is the cyclical practice of identifying, classifying, remediating, and mitigating vulnerabilities. Other vulnerabilities include security risks, security defects and constructs in programming languages that are difficult to use properly.

Vulnerabilities

Networking software modules are interfaced with a framework implemented on the machine's operating system that implements the networking functionality of the operating system. The best known frameworks are the TCP/IP model and the OSI model. Systems typically do not use a single protocol to handle a transmission. Instead they use a set of cooperating protocols, sometimes called a protocol family or protocol suite.[9] Some of the best known protocol suites include: IPX/SPX, X.25, AX.25, AppleTalk and TCP/IP. Other protocols indirectly related to networking include the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) and its related technologies, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Domain Name Server (DNS) and other Internet protocols.