Make budgeting easier when it’s time to modernize your access infrastructure. The air has a crispness to it, kids are back in school and the afternoon shadows are growing longer. For me, Fall has always been the season when the last revisions for projects and business as usual (BAU) budget requests were finalized. It was one of the last opportunities to dial in the plan of work for the upcoming year as well as align the projects with the critical financing which makes it all possible.

In 2017 Gartner unveiled a new acronym “ZTNA” short for zero trust network access, and released the Market Guide for Zero Trust Network Access. Revolutionary, especially compared to its incumbent technologies like VPN, ZTNA solution quickly became a new form of remote access that was designed to replace traditional remote access technologies and all the risks they came with.

As a kid who grew up on a steady diet of network TV in the 80s, I always got excited when a crossover was teased at the end of an episode. Take the original Magnum PI starring Tom Selleck. There were several. Magnum and Hawaii Five-O… classic. Simon and Simon on the case with Higgins and Thomas Magnum in 1982, that was a good one! And who could not forget Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) using her detective skills in episode ‘Novel Connection’!

Over the past 28 months, two significant events happened which will change the way we build our IT networks. First, obviously, the pandemic. March 2020 caused the workers of the world to move their office cubes to their basements, bedrooms or even the family kitchen table. Remote work became essential for the economy to function. To facilitate access, we saw mass adoption of Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) technologies which do not require heritage based solutions like IPSec VPNs.

Welcome to the ZTNA Collection, a curated list of the top favorite Zero Trust Network Access assets. Enjoy the array of glossary pages, blogs, videos, and whitepapers all specific to ZTNA thought leadership. What is Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)? Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) Created in April of 2019 by Gartner, the term Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) represents a set of new technologies designed for secure access to private applications.

The term “ZTNA,” zero trust network access, has been around for years – first bursting onto the scene in 2017 when Gartner dropped the term in their ZTNA Market Guide. This solution quickly became the starting point for most zero trust projects in the industry since it helped solve a relatively simple, but critical problem – finding more secure ways of providing remote access to internal applications.