In many conversations I have with security and infrastructure leaders, the discussion inevitably turns toward a zero trust project either already underway or set to begin soon. More often than not, this conversation is specifically about zero trust network access (ZTNA), because ZTNA technology has been frequently positioned as the solution for something every team really wants to achieve right now: total replacement of remote access VPNs.
Here’s the complication, though: modern cloud-delivered ZTNA can not be bolted onto a legacy infrastructure, thus it is not a rip and replace-VPN-replacement. For example, in a recent conversation I learned that a CIO’s company employs roughly 1200 call center workers as part of their globally distributed enterprise. Those call center workers still use a legacy on-premises hosted VoIP product.
The CIO explained that his team understands that upgrading to ZTNA is a phased approach that requires modernizing the broader application infrastructure and having a plan to upgrade VoIP to the modern UCaaS. However, that upgrade isn’t scheduled for another two years. In the meantime, they need to maintain a small fleet of VPN infrastructure, which is not ideal. This is not an uncommon scenario.
Fortunately, there’s now a better way to ZTNA.
Today, Netskope is proud to announce ZTNA Next, which will help organizations achieve true full VPN retirement and meet the promise of modernizing technology infr