According to Gartner, by 2023, 60% of enterprises will phase out their VPN in favor of Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). In this blog, discover the four key advantages of ZTNA vs VPN. VPN (Virtual Private Network) has been the dominant solution securing remote access for users and has been considered a good solution for almost three decades. VPN benefits included keeping data secure, protecting online privacy, and reducing bandwidth throttling.

“End of life, end of support, pandemic-induced shipping delays and remote work, scanning failures: It’s a recipe for a patching nightmare.”, federal cybersecurity CTO Matt Keller says. Ensuring a high level of security for your IT infrastructure and being sure you have not missed something is hard to arrange during these days. A zero-day exploit happens when hackers identify a software weakness or a security gap and take advantage of it to perform a cyberattack.

With hybrid work environments on the rise, enterprise networks are dealing with multiple remote connections, increasing the risk of breaches and other attacks. One way to mitigate these risks is by implementing Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) into the enterprise network. Unfortunately however this does not address the full set of threats to the enterprise, as many of the zero-trust service providers and on-premises network solutions do not address the voice network.

I am excited to announce the launch of our latest network security offering known as Ivanti Neurons for Secure Access (nSA). This new cloud-based management solution will allow our existing L3 VPN customers using Connect Secure to take the next step in their journey toward a zero trust architecture. And this all can happen while still utilize existing Connect Secure VPNs that are already setup and configured.

Like zero trust security, being a cyber defender is a personal mindset. One can argue that it might be a form of paranoia, but being situationally aware while connected online is a nice behavioral attribute to have given today’s internet climate with the barrage of news regarding ransomware and data breaches.

Within the initial blog in this series, we discussed ransomware attacks and their remediation on Android mobile devices. Part 2 addresses potential ransomware exploits and their remediation on iOS, iPadOS mobile devices and macOS desktops.

A May 2021 executive order mandated that federal government agencies invest in both technology and personnel to centralize and streamline access to cybersecurity data, accelerate migration to secure cloud architectures, and advance toward a zero-trust architecture. A zero-trust architecture doesn’t refer to a predefined, out-of-the-box network security solution. It’s a strategy based on an agency’s cybersecurity plan that contains a collection of zero-trust concepts.

Public sector organisations are in the middle of a massive digital transformation. Technology advances like cloud, mobile, microservices and more are transforming the public sector to help them deliver services as efficiently as commercial businesses, meet growing mission-critical demands, and keep up with market expectations and be more agile.