How ZTNA Outshines Legacy VPN in Visibility and Risk Management
Twingate Team
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Apr 10, 2024
Illuminating the Shadows: How ZTNA Outshines Legacy VPN in Visibility and Risk Management
As your organization grows and changes, you'll notice your network becomes much more complex. This growth is vital for scalability. But, it brings a dark side of more visibility problems and security risks. This is especially true for old network solutions.
Legacy network solutions like the traditional VPN were designed for a simpler time. They struggle to provide you with the necessary visibility and control over an increasingly remote and hybrid environment.
In this blog, we delve into the visibility and risk management challenges you face with legacy network solutions and highlight how Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) emerges as a beacon of clarity and security in the murky waters of modern network environments.
The Blind Spots of Legacy Network Solutions
Legacy network solutions, including traditional VPNs and perimeter-based security models, were built on the assumption that everything inside your network is trustworthy. This assumption creates significant blind spots for you, as these solutions focus on securing the perimeter while neglecting the internal movements and activities within your network. Such an oversight leads to several critical issues for you:
Limited Internal Visibility: Once an entity gains access through your perimeter defense, its activities within the network often go unnoticed, allowing potential malicious actions to unfold undetected.
Difficulty in Managing Complex Environments: As your IT environments become more complex with cloud services, mobile devices, and IoT, legacy solutions struggle to provide you with a comprehensive view across all your assets.
Inadequate Risk Assessment: Without detailed visibility into network activities and access patterns, accurately assessing and mitigating risks becomes a near-impossible task for you.
ZTNA: A Better Approach to Network Security
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) addresses your visibility and risk management challenges head-on by abandoning the outdated trust assumptions of legacy solutions. ZTNA operates on the principle that trust must never be implicit and that verification is required from anyone and anything trying to access resources in your network. This approach fundamentally changes how you manage visibility and risk:
Granular Visibility and Control: ZTNA provides you with detailed insights into who is accessing what resources, from where, and under what conditions. This granular level of visibility ensures that any unauthorized or suspicious activities can be detected and mitigated promptly.
Seamless Management Across Environments: ZTNA solutions are designed to function across your diverse and complex IT ecosystems, offering visibility and control whether resources are hosted on-premises or in the cloud.
Proactive Risk Management: By continuously monitoring access requests and network activities, ZTNA enables you to proactively identify and address security risks before they escalate into breaches.
Transitioning to ZTNA: Illuminating the Path Ahead
As Frank Slootman once pointed out, "in dynamic, high-growth environments, there is a premium on drivers—people who make things happen, who move the dials, who stop at literally nothing. True drivers, the types that change history, like Steve Jobs, are rare and usually found in super high-profile situations.
However, many people possess the potential to be drivers; they are naturally inclined to develop that way, and what they need is an empowering environment. You don’t keep drivers on a short leash, or any leash for that matter. Like wild horses, you let them run. You encourage, resource, and motivate them as much as you can."
Don’t just be a passenger in your organization; be the driver. Here are three simple steps to get started:
Conduct a Comprehensive Network Audit
Thoroughly evaluate the integrity and security of your network infrastructure. Begin by identifying all your assets, applications, and data flows to fully understand the current state of your network visibility and security. This systematic assessment will allow you to pinpoint vulnerabilities and develop strategies to enhance your overall security posture.
Choose a ZTNA Solution
Implement a ZTNA solution that fits your organization’s specific needs, considering factors like integration capabilities, scalability, and ease of deployment. At Twingate, we offer a free signup for organizations looking to explore a Zero Trust solution without any commitments.
Shift Towards Least Privilege Access
Ensure sure you and all stakeholders understand the Zero Trust philosophy and the operational changes it entails. It's essential to challenge outdated practices, such as assigning administrative privileges to directors or executives merely as a status symbol, rather than based on the necessities of their roles.
Stepping into the Light with ZTNA
The transition from legacy network solutions to a Zero Trust model represents a significant paradigm shift in how you approach network security.
By addressing the critical visibility and risk management challenges inherent in traditional models, Zero Trust Network Access offers you a more secure, manageable, and adaptable solution for today's complex digital environments.
In a simpler information age, the legacy VPN model was a solution that matched the way business worked. Today’s world is more complex, dynamic, and distributed which is why businesses need a modern approach to network access control.
Twingate’s Zero Trust solution gives companies a more secure, flexible, and performant way to manage network access. Resources can be in the cloud or on-premises. Users can be anywhere in the world. Twingate makes it easy for you to enforce granular access control policies based on least-privilege principles. And without the need to re-architect your networks, you can reap the benefits of Zero Trust in minutes.
Use Twingate’s free Starter plan to experience how simple and easy Zero Trust can be. Or contact us for more information about how Zero Trust can work for your organization.
Rapidly implement a modern Zero Trust network that is more secure and maintainable than VPNs.
How ZTNA Outshines Legacy VPN in Visibility and Risk Management
Twingate Team
•
Apr 10, 2024
Illuminating the Shadows: How ZTNA Outshines Legacy VPN in Visibility and Risk Management
As your organization grows and changes, you'll notice your network becomes much more complex. This growth is vital for scalability. But, it brings a dark side of more visibility problems and security risks. This is especially true for old network solutions.
Legacy network solutions like the traditional VPN were designed for a simpler time. They struggle to provide you with the necessary visibility and control over an increasingly remote and hybrid environment.
In this blog, we delve into the visibility and risk management challenges you face with legacy network solutions and highlight how Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) emerges as a beacon of clarity and security in the murky waters of modern network environments.
The Blind Spots of Legacy Network Solutions
Legacy network solutions, including traditional VPNs and perimeter-based security models, were built on the assumption that everything inside your network is trustworthy. This assumption creates significant blind spots for you, as these solutions focus on securing the perimeter while neglecting the internal movements and activities within your network. Such an oversight leads to several critical issues for you:
Limited Internal Visibility: Once an entity gains access through your perimeter defense, its activities within the network often go unnoticed, allowing potential malicious actions to unfold undetected.
Difficulty in Managing Complex Environments: As your IT environments become more complex with cloud services, mobile devices, and IoT, legacy solutions struggle to provide you with a comprehensive view across all your assets.
Inadequate Risk Assessment: Without detailed visibility into network activities and access patterns, accurately assessing and mitigating risks becomes a near-impossible task for you.
ZTNA: A Better Approach to Network Security
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) addresses your visibility and risk management challenges head-on by abandoning the outdated trust assumptions of legacy solutions. ZTNA operates on the principle that trust must never be implicit and that verification is required from anyone and anything trying to access resources in your network. This approach fundamentally changes how you manage visibility and risk:
Granular Visibility and Control: ZTNA provides you with detailed insights into who is accessing what resources, from where, and under what conditions. This granular level of visibility ensures that any unauthorized or suspicious activities can be detected and mitigated promptly.
Seamless Management Across Environments: ZTNA solutions are designed to function across your diverse and complex IT ecosystems, offering visibility and control whether resources are hosted on-premises or in the cloud.
Proactive Risk Management: By continuously monitoring access requests and network activities, ZTNA enables you to proactively identify and address security risks before they escalate into breaches.
Transitioning to ZTNA: Illuminating the Path Ahead
As Frank Slootman once pointed out, "in dynamic, high-growth environments, there is a premium on drivers—people who make things happen, who move the dials, who stop at literally nothing. True drivers, the types that change history, like Steve Jobs, are rare and usually found in super high-profile situations.
However, many people possess the potential to be drivers; they are naturally inclined to develop that way, and what they need is an empowering environment. You don’t keep drivers on a short leash, or any leash for that matter. Like wild horses, you let them run. You encourage, resource, and motivate them as much as you can."
Don’t just be a passenger in your organization; be the driver. Here are three simple steps to get started:
Conduct a Comprehensive Network Audit
Thoroughly evaluate the integrity and security of your network infrastructure. Begin by identifying all your assets, applications, and data flows to fully understand the current state of your network visibility and security. This systematic assessment will allow you to pinpoint vulnerabilities and develop strategies to enhance your overall security posture.
Choose a ZTNA Solution
Implement a ZTNA solution that fits your organization’s specific needs, considering factors like integration capabilities, scalability, and ease of deployment. At Twingate, we offer a free signup for organizations looking to explore a Zero Trust solution without any commitments.
Shift Towards Least Privilege Access
Ensure sure you and all stakeholders understand the Zero Trust philosophy and the operational changes it entails. It's essential to challenge outdated practices, such as assigning administrative privileges to directors or executives merely as a status symbol, rather than based on the necessities of their roles.
Stepping into the Light with ZTNA
The transition from legacy network solutions to a Zero Trust model represents a significant paradigm shift in how you approach network security.
By addressing the critical visibility and risk management challenges inherent in traditional models, Zero Trust Network Access offers you a more secure, manageable, and adaptable solution for today's complex digital environments.
In a simpler information age, the legacy VPN model was a solution that matched the way business worked. Today’s world is more complex, dynamic, and distributed which is why businesses need a modern approach to network access control.
Twingate’s Zero Trust solution gives companies a more secure, flexible, and performant way to manage network access. Resources can be in the cloud or on-premises. Users can be anywhere in the world. Twingate makes it easy for you to enforce granular access control policies based on least-privilege principles. And without the need to re-architect your networks, you can reap the benefits of Zero Trust in minutes.
Use Twingate’s free Starter plan to experience how simple and easy Zero Trust can be. Or contact us for more information about how Zero Trust can work for your organization.
Rapidly implement a modern Zero Trust network that is more secure and maintainable than VPNs.
How ZTNA Outshines Legacy VPN in Visibility and Risk Management
Twingate Team
•
Apr 10, 2024
Illuminating the Shadows: How ZTNA Outshines Legacy VPN in Visibility and Risk Management
As your organization grows and changes, you'll notice your network becomes much more complex. This growth is vital for scalability. But, it brings a dark side of more visibility problems and security risks. This is especially true for old network solutions.
Legacy network solutions like the traditional VPN were designed for a simpler time. They struggle to provide you with the necessary visibility and control over an increasingly remote and hybrid environment.
In this blog, we delve into the visibility and risk management challenges you face with legacy network solutions and highlight how Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) emerges as a beacon of clarity and security in the murky waters of modern network environments.
The Blind Spots of Legacy Network Solutions
Legacy network solutions, including traditional VPNs and perimeter-based security models, were built on the assumption that everything inside your network is trustworthy. This assumption creates significant blind spots for you, as these solutions focus on securing the perimeter while neglecting the internal movements and activities within your network. Such an oversight leads to several critical issues for you:
Limited Internal Visibility: Once an entity gains access through your perimeter defense, its activities within the network often go unnoticed, allowing potential malicious actions to unfold undetected.
Difficulty in Managing Complex Environments: As your IT environments become more complex with cloud services, mobile devices, and IoT, legacy solutions struggle to provide you with a comprehensive view across all your assets.
Inadequate Risk Assessment: Without detailed visibility into network activities and access patterns, accurately assessing and mitigating risks becomes a near-impossible task for you.
ZTNA: A Better Approach to Network Security
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) addresses your visibility and risk management challenges head-on by abandoning the outdated trust assumptions of legacy solutions. ZTNA operates on the principle that trust must never be implicit and that verification is required from anyone and anything trying to access resources in your network. This approach fundamentally changes how you manage visibility and risk:
Granular Visibility and Control: ZTNA provides you with detailed insights into who is accessing what resources, from where, and under what conditions. This granular level of visibility ensures that any unauthorized or suspicious activities can be detected and mitigated promptly.
Seamless Management Across Environments: ZTNA solutions are designed to function across your diverse and complex IT ecosystems, offering visibility and control whether resources are hosted on-premises or in the cloud.
Proactive Risk Management: By continuously monitoring access requests and network activities, ZTNA enables you to proactively identify and address security risks before they escalate into breaches.
Transitioning to ZTNA: Illuminating the Path Ahead
As Frank Slootman once pointed out, "in dynamic, high-growth environments, there is a premium on drivers—people who make things happen, who move the dials, who stop at literally nothing. True drivers, the types that change history, like Steve Jobs, are rare and usually found in super high-profile situations.
However, many people possess the potential to be drivers; they are naturally inclined to develop that way, and what they need is an empowering environment. You don’t keep drivers on a short leash, or any leash for that matter. Like wild horses, you let them run. You encourage, resource, and motivate them as much as you can."
Don’t just be a passenger in your organization; be the driver. Here are three simple steps to get started:
Conduct a Comprehensive Network Audit
Thoroughly evaluate the integrity and security of your network infrastructure. Begin by identifying all your assets, applications, and data flows to fully understand the current state of your network visibility and security. This systematic assessment will allow you to pinpoint vulnerabilities and develop strategies to enhance your overall security posture.
Choose a ZTNA Solution
Implement a ZTNA solution that fits your organization’s specific needs, considering factors like integration capabilities, scalability, and ease of deployment. At Twingate, we offer a free signup for organizations looking to explore a Zero Trust solution without any commitments.
Shift Towards Least Privilege Access
Ensure sure you and all stakeholders understand the Zero Trust philosophy and the operational changes it entails. It's essential to challenge outdated practices, such as assigning administrative privileges to directors or executives merely as a status symbol, rather than based on the necessities of their roles.
Stepping into the Light with ZTNA
The transition from legacy network solutions to a Zero Trust model represents a significant paradigm shift in how you approach network security.
By addressing the critical visibility and risk management challenges inherent in traditional models, Zero Trust Network Access offers you a more secure, manageable, and adaptable solution for today's complex digital environments.
In a simpler information age, the legacy VPN model was a solution that matched the way business worked. Today’s world is more complex, dynamic, and distributed which is why businesses need a modern approach to network access control.
Twingate’s Zero Trust solution gives companies a more secure, flexible, and performant way to manage network access. Resources can be in the cloud or on-premises. Users can be anywhere in the world. Twingate makes it easy for you to enforce granular access control policies based on least-privilege principles. And without the need to re-architect your networks, you can reap the benefits of Zero Trust in minutes.
Use Twingate’s free Starter plan to experience how simple and easy Zero Trust can be. Or contact us for more information about how Zero Trust can work for your organization.