PrintDoc Security Desk

Your printer is on the network. So is everyone else.

Most small-office breaches we clean up start at a router with a default password or a printer exposed to the internet. These are the steps our technicians follow on every install β€” written up so you can follow them too.

Guides

Each one is a single sitting: about 20–40 minutes for a typical office of up to 50 devices.

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Hardening the office router

Admin access, Wi-Fi, WPS, UPnP, remote management and logging β€” the twelve settings that matter.

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Isolating network printers

Put printers in their own segment, close raw ports to the outside and switch off protocols nobody uses.

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Firmware updates without surprises

How to verify an image before flashing, keep a rollback path and schedule updates outside office hours.

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Quarterly audit checklist

The same list we run on maintenance visits. Print it, tick it, file it.

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Templates & sample configs

Firewall rule examples, an update log template and a network baseline you can adapt.

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Talk to a technician

Found something odd in your logs? Send it over and we will take a look the same day.

61%of audited offices still had a default router password
1 in 4printers reachable on port 9100 from outside
3 yrsaverage age of router firmware we find
40 minto fix all of the above

Recently updated

We revise these guides after field visits and vendor advisories.