This Week in Imaging: How Konica Minolta and Kyocera Use AI to Better Secure their Office Printers and Copier/MFPs
In our continuing series, we look at how document-imaging companies are using artificial intelligence to better secure their office printers and copier/MFPs. This week we look at Konica Minolta and Kyocera Document Solutions.
Both Konica Minolta and Kyocera use AI to transition office-imaging devices and printers from passive hardware to proactive, intelligent network endpoints. They use AI for adaptive user authentication, real-time threat monitoring, intelligent pull printing, and predictive firmware defense.
Key AI Security Features
- Adaptive User Authentication and Access: AI learns regular user behavior and enhances verification. This ensures only authorized personnel can release print jobs via secure pull-printing. AI-driven single sign-on (SSO) systems securely integrate with cloud directories like Microsoft Entra ID.
- Real-Time Threat Detection: AI algorithms monitor document workflows in real time. Systems can recognize unusual activities, such as large volumes of confidential documents being printed outside of regular business hours, or unauthorized brute-force login attempts.
- Proactive Intrusion and Anomaly Detection: AI continuously monitors network traffic to detect and block suspicious activity targeting the printer.
Konica Minolta
- bizhub SECURE and Shield Guard: Konica Minolta deploys AI-driven algorithms for their bizhub One i-Series and Shield Guard platforms to automate security enforcement and provide Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR).
- Integrated Anti-Virus: Through partnerships with Bitdefender, the devices scan all incoming print and network traffic for malware, preventing the MFP from acting as a vector that infects the broader company server.
- Enhanced Access Protection: Systems constantly detect early warning signs of unauthorized access or password probing to thwart breaches before they happen.
Kyocera
- TASKalfa Smart Security: Kyocera integrates intelligent monitoring into the TASKalfa series to automatically classify documents and secure access points.
- AI-Driven Pull Printing: AI engines enhance the Pull Printing feature, ensuring that sensitive print jobs remain held on the server until the authorized user authenticates their identity directly at the machine.
- Proactive Maintenance and Self-Diagnosis: Kyocera’s AI measures the health and usage patterns of the printer, allowing devices to pre-emptively alert technicians of potential performance issues while maintaining rigid data encryption across all processing and storage.
In summary, these companies are using AI to better secure office printers and MFPs in three key areas: protecting the device from being compromised or breached; protecting the data the devices process from being intercepted; and preventing unauthorized users from using the device.
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