Zero Trust and Federal Print's Hidden Attack Surface

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Federal Zero Trust strategies have made rapid progress on identity, network segmentation, and endpoint detection — but print infrastructure remains one of the most overlooked attack surfaces in government. Legacy print servers sit inside trust boundaries by default, run outdated spooler services tied to well-documented CVEs, and expose credentials and print jobs to lateral movement in ways that directly contradict the principles laid out in OMB M-22-09 and EO 14028. As agencies push toward the FY2027 Zero Trust deadlines, print is quickly becoming the gap auditors, red teams, and IGs are asking about.

Vasion Print delivers a FedRAMP High-authorized, serverless print management platform purpose-built for federal agencies. By eliminating print servers entirely and enabling direct IP printing, agencies collapse a major attack surface, remove standing trust inside the network, and bring print into alignment with Zero Trust Architecture. Full support for IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) and Windows Protected Print (WPP) positions agencies ahead of Microsoft’s deprecation of the legacy Windows Print Spooler — all managed from a single centralized cloud platform already trusted across DoD and civilian agencies.