Security Of The Usb Connection; The Usb Connection On The Printer User Interface - Canon Oce PlotWave 300 Administration Manual

Security of the USB connection

The USB connection on the printer user interface

Introduction
A USB connection is available on the touch panel.
This USB connection is used to:
• Install / upgrade the controller software
• Backup and restore the controller configuration
• Scan to the USB storage device
• Print from the USB storage device
Security on the USB port
General USB port protection:
• Booting from the USB device is not possible.
• Executing any programme present on the USB device is not possible
The Autorun is disabled and no operation on the controller can execute a programme on the
USB device.
• Propagating on network any infected file present on the USB device plugged on the USB port
is not possible
Read from / write to USB device protection
• Protection of the USB READ operation:
- when restoring a controller configuration from the Local User Interface.
In that case, any file infected by a virus appears as an invalid backup file. The controller
software detects it and rejects the restore operation.
- when printing from the USB device.
Any print file infected by a virus will never compromise controller's software integrity.
• Protection of the USB WRITE operation:
- during the backup of the controller configuration, from the Local User Interface.
The backup is performed by the internal controller software. It cannot contaminate the USB
device by any threat.
- when making a Scan To File to the USB device:
The Scan To File operation to USB device is performed by the internal controller software. It
cannot contaminate the USB device by any threat.
Disable the USB features
You can disable:
• The direct printing operation from USB only
• The scanning operation to USB only
• Both of the printing and scanning operations from USB
The procedure is described in the section about Océ PlotWave 340/360: refer to
from USB' and/or 'Scan to USB' on page
145.
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Security of the USB connection
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