The announced end of remote VPN access

According to a 🔍 Gartner survey 💶, 74% of companies plan to keep at least some of their employees working remotely on a permanent basis 👨‍💻.

At the same time, 60% of companies are considering eliminating their VPN access products.

Is there a paradox?

The last two years of remote work have led to an explosion of more than 1,500% in cyberattacks involving VPN access, including 0-day attacks.

In addition, remote access performance problems and high support costs are calling this way of accessing the company's information system into question.

So...

• How should secure access to company resources be designed, from anywhere and from any type of business or personal device?
• How can access to resources now hosted in public Clouds be optimised and secured?
• And finally, how can a satisfying user experience be delivered in terms of performance and ease of connection?

The SASE model, as defined by Gartner in 2019, addresses these challenges because it combines network access and identity management through a Zero Trust approach (ZTNA).

Secure Web Gateway (SWG) and Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) features make it possible to control users' access security 🔐 wherever they are 🌍 and whatever device 📲 💻 ⌨ they use.

SASE players that have deployed global coverage of Points of Presence (PoPs) optimise access performance to all applications end to end.

The massive investments in VPN technologies made during the pandemic are delaying the widespread adoption of the SASE model and its underlying technologies.

Companies will need to anticipate the end of their contracts and the obsolescence of their VPN products in order to undertake their transformation towards the access and security technologies delivered by SASE in the best possible conditions.

@EtayMaor

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*Source: Cato Networks