REASONS WHY

it’s time to say bye to VPN

When’s the last time someone said they liked VPN?
The way we work has changed. We access apps from any device, from anywhere, and we
expect a fast, seamless experience when we do so. Now, enterprises are able to deliver this,
and improve security with cloud services called Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
technologies. A modern alternative to VPN.

See How They Compare

Life with VPN Life with ZTNA

“65% of employees are required to use

VPN multiple times per week”¹

User traffic is backhauled to the ZTNA provides fast access.

data center causing a slow Improving experience and boosting
experience, impeding productivity. productivity.

“68% of IT admins say their

job is stressful”²
...And the VPN complaints aren’t helping. With ZTNA, admins receive fewer tickets,
have happier users, and stress less.

Are we still using VPN? I haven’t

The VPN is down again… had issues in weeks.

I know, I’m working on it. We switched to Zscaler's ZTNA

solution instead.

When will it be done?

Glad you're loving the user
experience.
I'm meeting with a customer
in 5-mins

“The average enterprise DDoS

attack costs $2.5 million”³
VPNs listen for inbound pings which ZTNA never exposes IPs to the
exposes the network to DDoS attacks. internet, making apps invisible and
DDoS attacks impossible.

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“In 2022, 42.5% of the global workforce will

be mobile”4...and that number’s growing.
VPN licenses are tied to appliances. Many ZTNAs are delivered
as a cloud service.
Forcing IT to worry about exceeding capacity
limits and the subsequent loss of remote Allowing scale to any number of remote users,
user productivity. maximizing both security and productivity.

The choice is clear.

Gartner predicts that "By 2023, 60% of enterprises will phase out
most of their remote access VPNs in favor of ZTNA."5

See what else Gartner is saying about ZTNA. Read the Gartner report here.

¹ GlobalWebIndex, Frequency of VPN usage according to global VPN users as of 2nd quarter 2017, by device. Q2 2017
² GFI Software, IT Stress Survey, 4th edition, 2015
³ ZDNet, “The average DDoS attack cost for businesses rises to over $2.5 million,” by Osborne, Charlie, 17 May 2017
4 Strategy Analytics, Global Mobile Workforce Forecast Update, 2017–2022, Luk, Gina, Oct 28, 2018
5 Market Guide on Zero Trust Network Access, Steve Riley, Neil MacDonald, Lawrence Orans, April 2019

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