Print Management Is a Security Decision Now — Here's How to Make It

For years, enterprise print was the quiet utility nobody thought about until something broke. That assumption is exactly why it's now one of the most exposed parts of your stack.

Three forces converged in 2025 to change the conversation:

• 53 Print Spooler CVEs disclosed since PrintNightmare — a continuous stream of SYSTEM-level privilege-escalation and RCE flaws.
• 83 vulnerabilities found in a single "serverless" print platform in April 2025, including a hardcoded SSH backdoor and cross-tenant data leaks. At least four critical flaws were still unpatched in December.
• 86% of CIOs now plan to repatriate workloads on-premises — the highest rate on record. The cloud-only era is correcting, and print should follow.

Meanwhile, 56% of organizations suffered a print-related data loss in the past year, and print still accounts for roughly 23% of IT tickets. The cost of getting it wrong is no longer hidden.

Three paths, one defensible answer

Our new white paper, The Enterprise Print Decision, lays out the only three credible options IT and security leaders actually face:

Do nothing. Keep the scripts, GPOs, and stacked vendor drivers. It feels free — but you're paying in helpdesk hours and an unpatched, unauditable attack surface that only grows.

Go serverless. Outsource print to a cloud-only SaaS platform. Simpler to deploy, riskier to own. You trade known overhead for an unknown vendor security posture, internet dependency, and data-sovereignty gaps you can't prove away in an audit.

Adopt a Hybrid Print Architecture. Keep control of print where it matters, fortify it, unify it under one console, and add Zero Trust security with a per-user audit trail. You repatriate control of your data and uptime without losing central management — and it pays for itself inside Year 1.

Why hybrid wins

The future of enterprise print isn't serverless — it's fortified. A Hybrid Print Architecture with ScrewDrivers® consolidates hundreds of endpoint drivers down to driverless, shrinks the attack surface by ~90%, keeps 100% of jobs and metadata inside your perimeter, and delivers sub-30-second failover at 99.9% uptime — even if the internet goes dark.

It deploys as a secure plug-in inside the Citrix, Microsoft AVD, Omnissa, and IGEL environments you already run, turning print from the weakest link in the session into a non-event.

Prove it in four weeks

You don't have to choose between unmanaged legacy servers and a serverless black box. The white paper includes a buyer's framework, a side-by-side comparison across the dimensions that matter, and the five questions every IT leader should be able to answer about their print estate today.

Download The Enterprise Print Decision white paper to see the full evidence and the math — then prove it in your own environment with a free architecture assessment and four-week trial.