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Symantec Secure Access Cloud ZTNA is a critical component of a complete SASE solution. Symantec Secure Access Cloud ZTNA is a cloud-delivered service providing highly secure, granular access management for enterprise applications deployed in IaaS clouds and on-premises data center environments. Symantec ZTNA eliminates inbound connections to your network, creates a software-defined perimeter between users and corporate applications, and establishes policy-based application-level access. This service ensures that all corporate applications and services are completely cloaked and invisible to attackers, addressing the whole set of challenges where traditional solutions struggle.
Providing access to corporate applications and services for authorized users was straightforward when everything was located in large corporate data centers and users all resided in predictable locations, using corporate issued devices. Inside the network perimeter, users had full visibility to see applications and services. Outside the perimeter firewall, they used tools such as VPNs to get access to the corporate network and then to the applications required to do their work.
The Cloud Generation has forever changed the way employees access information, and IT has had to keep pace. Moving applications to the cloud, without sacrificing user mobility and anywhere-access is paramount. This transformation has created significant complexities and has exposed security vulnerabilities that exist in traditional VPN access methods. These challenges include the following vulnerabilities:
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Wide network surface attacks: Vulnerability scans and other techniques expose the entire network and map available applications. Traditional solutions frequently lack just-in-time privileged access, granting full access to unneeded resources.
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Lateral movement: Creating direct connectivity with the mesh of services and clients significantly increases the chance for lateral movement.
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Lack of visibility: Activities performed by users connecting to applications make end-to-end tracing extremely difficult.
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Complex maintenance and scalability challenges: Deploying multiple gateways to support all possible traffic backhaul options require DMZ and firewall setup, which is expensive and complicated.
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Poor user experience: The inability to support third-party contractors with their own devices hinders productivity. Backhauling traffic leads to higher latency, inconvenience, and a poor user experience.
Today’s dynamic business environment, sophisticated threats, and cyber attacks present unique challenges that require a new mindset, one that moves past a dated, perimeter-based approach that exposes corporate networks and applications and is not built for the cloud era.
Improve Security Posture with a Zero Trust Access Solution
ZTNA provides point-to-point connectivity at the application level, cloaking all resources from the end-user devices and the internet. The network-level attack surface is entirely removed, leaving no room for lateral movement and network-based threats. Its simple-to-set, fine-grained and easy-to-manage access and activity policies prevent unauthorized access to the corporate resources by implementing continuous, contextual (user, device and resource-based context) authorization to enterprise applications allowing secured employee, partners and BYOD access.
