When security threats try to worm their way into your enterprise through network printers, you can use print authentication to make it a lot tougher for them to succeed. As this new HP white paper explains, print authentication is a cost-effective, relatively non-disruptive means of verifying that the people who want access to network printers are who they say they are – and that they have the access privileges they claim they do.

Read it to learn how authentication works at the device level and the network level, and to get an introduction to authentication methods such as in-printer PIN authentication, smartcards, common access cards and biometrics. You’ll also find out how you can use authentication to control access to device functionality and sensitive information, and how server-based authentication and authorization can help you protect both devices and data.