Company
Date Published
Author
Erin Risk
Word count
4970
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Business VPNs, which were created in the 1990s as an affordable way to link company locations and workers over the internet, are still widely used today. However, their origins make them poor choices for modern networks due to security and management flaws embedded into the network infrastructure. In contrast, Zero Trust Network Access is a modern approach that avoids these weaknesses by assuming nothing can be trusted implicitly and drawing perimeters around each resource rather than entire networks. This micro-segmentation makes successful breaches less effective by blocking lateral movement. Additionally, Zero Trust creates a direct, encrypted connection between each user and each resource, removing performance bottlenecks and providing a transparent user experience while hiding protected resources behind a software-defined perimeter to reduce the attack surface. With its simple, software-based approach, Twingate's Zero Trust Network Access solution can be deployed within 15 minutes, making it an attractive alternative to traditional business VPNs for companies of all sizes.