Secure, seamless remote access is a business enabler — boosting remote user productivity and
reducing the time spent by IT teams to onboard and maintain user-to-application connectivity
with agility and resilience. And yet, remote access remains a challenge for many organizations.
Once upon a time, VPNs offered a simple way to connect a few remote users to corporate
networks for brief periods of time. As workforces became more distributed, however — and
organizations needed to keep remote users securely connected for longer periods of time — the
flaws in this approach became evident, from sluggish performance and increased security risks to
scalability concerns.
As remote access needs grow, organizations are increasingly shifting away from traditional VPN
implementations and toward more secure and performant remote access solutions. Zero Trust
network access, or ZTNA, creates secure boundaries around specific applications, private IPs and
hostnames, replacing default-allow VPN connections with default-deny policies that grant access
based on identity and context.