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Data Security Installation Guide v7.8.x

Printer agent

The Data Security printer agent is required when you want to monitor what is printed on your organization’s network printers.

The printer agent supports permit and block actions.

When a user on the network prints a file, it is routed to the Microsoft Windows printer spooler service, where the printer agent intercepts it and sends it to the Data Security policy engine. After analysis of the content, the Data Security system enforces the policy as necessary: either auditing, monitoring or blocking the print job from being printed, in which case the sender (the user who printed the document) receives a notification that the print job was blocked.

The printer agent is capable of identifying the user that submitted the print job, because these credentials are included in the print job.

Websense Data Security generates forensics reports that list the blocked print files along with other blocked transmissions.

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