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Date Published
Author
Jay Chen
Word count
3134
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

In the wake of the COVID pandemic, CIOs and CISOs around the world now find remote workforce security becoming a top priority. Expanding their businesses' existing VPN or RDP infrastructure - necessary in the immediate crisis - has made their security systems potential vectors for cybercriminals and other bad actors. Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) is an alternative approach for securing remote network access first introduced in 2009, but misperceptions and marketing hype have made it seem like a buzzword rather than a realistic solution. ZTNA creates secure perimeters around each individual resource, denying access by default and only allowing authenticated and authorized users to access resources they need from devices that meet access control requirements. Despite its benefits in making resources more secure and simplifying network infrastructure, ZTNA is not widely adopted due to perceived complexity and expense of replacing existing security frameworks, as well as the lack of a specific implementation or industry standard. Traditional VPNs and other existing approaches to remote access security are often seen as less risky and require less effort, but they have become increasingly outdated and subject to cybersecurity weaknesses that create more risks for companies everywhere. Twingate is an alternative solution that provides the benefits of ZTNA while making deployment and management simple, deployable in 15 minutes, and requiring no changes to network infrastructure or resources.