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Zscaler Private Access for remote access VPN retirement
There’s no need to wait. Your users have
spoken. It’s time to retire your VPN.
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A brief lesson in remote access VPN history
In the beginning it was simple. The classic castle-and-moat security architecture provided a secure perimeter around the network, and the hub-and-spoke networking model routed traffic to a central data center. But something unique happened. Remote users started to move outside the network.
In the 1990s the remote access virtual private network was created as a means to connect remote users to the corporate network by extending the network to them and routing traffic through a VPN gateway hosted in the data center. But enterprises still rely on this technology today, even though it was never built to provide access to applications, let alone apps that now exist in not only the data center, but also cloud.
A new approach to secure remote access to internal applications
One not anchored within the data center
Software-defined perimeter for secure remote access
The Zscaler Private Access Service provides secure remote access to internal applications, regardless of where they exist and without placing users on the network. The service requires no remote access VPN or complex gateway appliances, and uses cloud hosted policy to authenticate access and route user traffic to the closest application location.
1. Cloud Policy Engine
- Hosted in cloud
- Provides users access to app
- Customizable by admins
2. Z-App
- Mobile client
- Installs on all users devices
3. Z-Connector
- Sits in front of apps in Azure, AWS, and other public clouds
- Lightweight binary, runs in cloud or data center
- Listens for access requests from Z-cloud
- No inbound connections
Remote access VPN retirement benefits
Better security via policy-based access
Users never on network
Policy-based access
App and user visibility
Reduce costs for remote access
No hardware appliances
Less telco spend
Easy to implement and get started
Segment by application
Runs parallel to VPN
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