HP Enterprise printers and scanners - Imaging and Printing Security Best Practices (white paper)

Figure 33: Enabling HTTPS web communication.
Encryption Strength
The Encryption Strength setting allows you to choose the strength of the encryption algorithm used for communication between
the MFP EWS and the web browsers connecting to it (this is related to the HTTPS Setting option above). To configure the
Encryption Strength setting:
Click Encryption Strength in the Security category (Figure 34).
Click the Encryption Strength dropdown menu, and select the highest setting that your browser supports.
Figure 34: The Encryption Strength option.
Open/Print from USB Device
The Open/Print from USB Device feature allows you to print documents stored on a USB device. Leaving this option enabled could
allow people without access to your network print documents from your devices at walk up. We recommend that this feature be
Disabled. Disabling this feature will not affect your smart card solution or Host USB functionality. To set Enable Host USB:
Click to select the Open/Print from USB (Figure 34) and click to select Disabled.
Figure 35: The Open/Print from USB option.
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