- Selected HP Printers to be launched in 2025 will include a Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic scheme, starting with the new 8000 series
- HP Printers, with this protection, should be resistant to an attack
- Quantum resilience is required across the entire fleet, including PCs and Printers
In 2024 HP announced the “world’s first” business PCs1 with firmware protection against quantum computer attacks. Now it is the turn of the printers.
At HP Amplify 2025, HP announced the “world’s first” printers to protect against quantum computer attacks2.
The threat of quantum computers breaking asymmetric cryptography – the algorithms that our digital world relies on – grows every year. Experts think there’s up to a 34% chance of this happening by 20343. This would put encrypted communications at risk, compromise the existing digital signatures used for verifying the integrity of firmware and software, and dissolve digital trust. Without quantum resilience, a printer facing a quantum attack at the firmware level would be fully exposed through malicious firmware updates, giving the attacker stealthy, persistent and total control of the device.
This is why HP’s new 8000 Series printers – including the:
HP Color LaserJet Enterprise MFP 8801
HP Color LaserJet Mono MFP 8601, and
HP Color LaserJet Pro Mono SFP 8501 printers
are designed with quantum resilience to protect against the quantum attacks of the future, offering:
• A foundation for quantum resistance
The printers’ new ASIC chips are designed with quantum resistant cryptography and enable the use of digital signature verification to protect firmware integrity against quantum attacks.
• Enhanced security at the hardware level
Printer manageability and protection is enhanced through the new ASIC chips, which protect early-stage BIOS and BIOS boot firmware integrity, reducing the risk of data breaches.
• Seamless integration with Zero Trust measures
Foundational to HP’s Zero Trust Print ArchitectureTM, these printers are designed to integrate seamlessly into existing Zero Trust Network Architectures.
Organisations can now take a unified, fleet-wide approach to their security strategies and protect against current and future threats, when the printers are launched later in 2025.
Availability of the new HP 8000 series printers to be announced.
1 Based on HP’s internal analysis of business PCs with preinstalled encryption, authentication, malware protection, BIOS-level protection and passing MIL-STD testing, finding that no other in-class PC implements a quantum-resistant cryptographic scheme to protect the integrity of UEFI BIOS firmware as of March, 2024.
2 Based on HP’s internal analysis of Printers with preinstalled encryption, authentication, malware protection, post-quantum digital signature, and initial BIOS firmware integrity protection with automatic self-healing recovery finding that no other in-class Printers implement a quantum-resistant cryptographic scheme to protect the integrity of the BIOS and firmware as of March 2025.
3. https://globalriskinstitute.org/publication/2024-quantum-threat-timeline-report/
