Print Infrastructure Is the Biggest Zero Trust Gap CIOs Haven’t Closed, Survey Finds

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Postmedia has not reviewed the content. by Business Wire Print Infrastructure Is the Biggest Zero Trust Gap CIOs Haven't Closed, Survey FindsAuthor of the article:Print Infrastructure Is the Biggest Zero Trust Gap CIOs Haven't Closed, Survey Finds Business Wire54% of CIOs and IT leaders call the risk in their document and print workflows “known and accepted,” even as only 16% have brought print into their Zero Trust architectureTHIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLYSubscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada.Exclusive articles from Barbara Shecter, Joe O'Connor, Gabriel Friedman, and others.Daily content from Financial Times, the world's leading global business publication.Unlimited online access to read articles from Financial Post, National Post and 15 news sites across Canada with one account.National Post ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on.Daily puzzles, including the New York Times Crossword.SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLESSubscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada.Exclusive articles from Barbara Shecter, Joe O'Connor, Gabriel Friedman and others.Daily content from Financial Times, the world's leading global business publication.Unlimited online access to read articles from Financial Post, National Post and 15 news sites across Canada with one account.National Post ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on.Daily puzzles, including the New York Times Crossword.REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLESCreate an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience.Access articles from across Canada with one account.Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments.Enjoy additional articles per month.Get email updates from your favourite authors.THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK.Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience.Access articles from across Canada with one accountShare your thoughts and join the conversation in the commentsEnjoy additional articles per monthGet email updates from your favourite authorsSign In or Create an AccountST. GEORGE, Utah — Vasion today released new research revealing a security gap hiding in plain sight across enterprise IT: CIOs and IT leaders know their print environments carry risk, but print remains largely outside their Zero Trust strategies even as failures continue to disrupt business operations. According to an independent survey of 500+ enterprise CIOs and senior IT leaders commissioned by Vasion through Censuswide, 54% of respondents describe their print environment as “actively managed, with known and accepted risks.” At the same time, 61% report that print or document workflow failures disrupt their business at least once a week.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.The finding points to a broader issue: print may not be viewed as broken, but it remains an accepted area of exposure and operational friction. The gap becomes stark when survey respondents assess their own Zero Trust progress. Cloud workloads lead at 66% coverage, followed by endpoint security at 61% and identity management at 58%. Print infrastructure trails every category at just 16%.Get the latest headlines, breaking news and columns.By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder.The next issue of Top Stories will soon be in your inbox.We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try againThat means the infrastructure handling sensitive documents across the enterprise remains dramatically less covered by Zero Trust strategies than the systems surrounding it. Closing that gap becomes more urgent as enterprises move toward AI. A full 64% of CIOs and IT leaders say establishing or expanding AI is a leading 2026 focus.“CIOs want AI agents doing real work inside their document workflows,” said Corey Ercanbrack, CTO at Vasion. “Those workflows still run through print and scan, and in most organizations that layer sits outside Zero Trust with no identity binding and no audit trail. You can’t give an agent access to a layer you can’t verify. Closing the print gap isn’t just security cleanup. It’s the prerequisite for end-to-end agentic AI.”Vasion’s Intelligent Print Automation platform is designed to modernize print infrastructure, extend Zero Trust principles to the print environment, and connect print and document workflows to the broader digital enterprise— making every document AI-ready to search, sign, or store.The full report is available here.Survey Methodology Censuswide surveyed 502 U.S. CIOs, IT directors and systems administrators at organizations in the government, manufacturing and healthcare sectors between June 3 and June 9, 2026. Respondents comprised 50% CIOs, 41% IT directors and 9% systems administrators. Censuswide is a member of the Market Research Society and the British Polling Council, is a signatory of the Global Data Quality Pledge, and adheres to the MRS Code of Conduct and ESOMAR principles. The research was commissioned by Vasion, which owns the data and findings.Vasion is an Intelligent Print Automation category leader making digital transformation attainable for all by eliminating print servers, consolidating print environments, and digitizing document workflows. Renowned for pioneering serverless, direct IP printing with PrinterLogic, we are now redefining modern output management with one of the world’s most secure cloud native platforms: Vasion holds ISO 42001 and ISO 27001 certifications, a SOC 2 Type II report, and achieved FedRAMP® High Authorization. More than 14,000 customers globally, including hundreds of the world’s leading enterprises, deploy Vasion’s software to modernize, consolidate, automate, and secure their print environments, while deploying and enabling agentic AI at the document layer through capabilities like Print Agent and Forms Agent (coming soon) within Vasion Automate. Learn more at vasion.com.© 2026 Vasion, Inc. All rights reserved. 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