We purchased a machine from China and it came with malware preinstalled

Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by briffle on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:32AM (#30073850)

I don't think I have ever seen a major US office building where the printers were on an isolated network. They are usually on the same network as the workstations, but sometimes on the server network, so the print server can connect directly to them.

And to be honest, (I have been out of it for a few years now) I have yet to see a company block OUTGOING access on a DMZ.

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Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by treesknees on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:22PM (#30075716)

Actually it's pretty common nowadays to have printers on an isolated VLAN. The only way "onto" that network is through a central printing management server that handles billing/accounting and job release duties.

You see it often in Universities, but also in larger businesses where you want to stop someone from accidentally printing 5000 copies instead of 50, or having print jobs stack up on top of each other in the output tray (think HR/sensitive information being scooped up by accident.)

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Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by jandrese on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:55PM (#30076250)

At my work the printers are on their own isolated network. Print servers act as the bridge between the networks. Basically they were not trustworthy enough to be on the same LAN as the workstations.

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