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Secure Internet Printing (IPP)
Looking for a secure (HIPAA compliant) internet printing solution. So far IPP seems to be the right solution, however I'm not finding a lot of information out there.
The scenario is this... folks at our client offices access our system via an HTTPS web client. For printing we need to maintain a VPN tunnel to pass port 515 or 9100 traffic. Looking to get out from having to maintain site-to-site or SSL-VPN tunnels.
The system we run only prints to printers using a UNC naming convention - \\server\print_share - so what i need to do is create a an IPP printer on the system, and share it in a UNC convention. Downside is right now Windows won't let me share an IPP printer. So I'm stuck with that dilemma at the moment and may have to find a print server that'll allow this to happen.
Assuming once I can get over that hurdle, then I need to be concerned with securing the print stream over the internet so that it's encrypted and secure to keep the HIPAA compliance folks happy.
To make life easier - I'm going to impose 1 or 2 printer models to our clients to keep support issues to a minimum.
I'm assuming the traffic will go out over port 631 - and they'll need to punch a hole in their firewall and NAT to the printer's IP address. Finally - if I have multiple printers that I need to print to via IPP behind a single public IP address - am I looking at multiple holes through a firewall to reach each individual printer?
I know many networked printers now support IPP - but the question is how secure is it?
Thanks.
The scenario is this... folks at our client offices access our system via an HTTPS web client. For printing we need to maintain a VPN tunnel to pass port 515 or 9100 traffic. Looking to get out from having to maintain site-to-site or SSL-VPN tunnels.
The system we run only prints to printers using a UNC naming convention - \\server\print_share - so what i need to do is create a an IPP printer on the system, and share it in a UNC convention. Downside is right now Windows won't let me share an IPP printer. So I'm stuck with that dilemma at the moment and may have to find a print server that'll allow this to happen.
Assuming once I can get over that hurdle, then I need to be concerned with securing the print stream over the internet so that it's encrypted and secure to keep the HIPAA compliance folks happy.
To make life easier - I'm going to impose 1 or 2 printer models to our clients to keep support issues to a minimum.
I'm assuming the traffic will go out over port 631 - and they'll need to punch a hole in their firewall and NAT to the printer's IP address. Finally - if I have multiple printers that I need to print to via IPP behind a single public IP address - am I looking at multiple holes through a firewall to reach each individual printer?
I know many networked printers now support IPP - but the question is how secure is it?
Thanks.
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