Take control of access
ZTNA provides fine-grained control
Ensure early detection
Stay in front of threats — whatever the source
Adopt continuous inspection and verification
Achieve better security outcomes for your hybrid workforce
Get the cybersecurity you need
Exercise the control required to keep your environment secure
ZTNA for simplified risk management
Make verification the rule — no matter what the data source
Least-privileged access
Get precise access control at the app and sub-app levels
Remove the potential for unintended security gaps and insider threats.
ZTNA makes ‘trust’ a non-issue, providing secure connections to deliver better outcomes for your hybrid workforce. Get deep, continuous inspection of all traffic — even for allowed connections — to prevent all threats and consistently secure applications used across your enterprise.
Advanced data loss prevention
Move beyond legacy DLP to improve data classification and visibility
Adopt a modern approach to DLP that reflects your evolving threat landscape.
ZTNA delivers a comprehensive approach to content inspection, ensuring you can mitigate advanced zero-day threats, ransomware attacks, and exploits. Take a holistic view of network security and enforce strong data governance.
Identity-centric security
Ensure that sensitive information doesn’t leak from your corporate network
Put proof above trust to ensure your data doesn’t get into the wrong hands.
ZTNA leaves nothing to chance, giving you the confidence about the user’s identity by considering factors like device, location, and behavior before granting access. Enhance your overall security by guaranteeing that every access request is fully authenticated and authorized before access is granted.
App-specific access
Limit the extent of your attack surface with an approach that considers every application
Lay a sound foundation for your journey to complete digital transformation.
Using ZTNA as your bedrock approach enables you to treat all network traffic the same, ensuring heightened security. By following ZTNA’s three principles — explicit verification of everything, the use of least-privileged access for all, and assuming that all access requests are potential breaches — you can confidently get on with business.
Fine-grained control
Grant access only to what specific users need
Move beyond the protection provided by a typical VPN.
Our ZTNA doesn’t grant broad network access the way a VPN can; rather, it unifies security policies across your organization while examining anomalies that may occur during partner interactions. While you can’t control how your strategic partners handle data or ensure that your own employees and contractors won’t open a door to something dangerous, ZTNA puts you in total control.
Logic-based boundaries
Set your controls to correspond with who you are and how you work
No two organizations are identical, and the differences expand as you look further into suppliers, strategic partners, and other elements of business.
With ZTNA, you can decide how to proceed, based on the six key pillars: users, devices, workloads, network, analytics, and automation. Using those elements to define your security environment enables you to shape your overall approach to Zero Trust.
Adaptive policies
Apply contextual factors — user behavior, device health, geolocation, etc. — to custom fit your ZTNA
No business operates in a vacuum.
Our approach to ZTNA allows you to gain a thorough understanding of your current state of achieving Zero Trust and develop priorities and milestones that will help you achieve a next-generation security environment. Based on an assessment of your business environment, we’ll work with you to develop a strategy and roadmap tailored to your organization, addressing issues like planning, budget, prioritization, time management, and implementation that might affect your move to ZTNA.
Get precise access control at the app and sub-app levels
Move beyond legacy DLP to improve data classification and visibility
Ensure that sensitive information doesn’t leak from your corporate network
Limit the extent of your attack surface with an approach that considers every application
Grant access only to what specific users need
Set your controls to correspond with who you are and how you work
Apply contextual factors — user behavior, device health, geolocation, etc. — to custom fit your ZTNA
Discover the benefits
Experience unparalleled cybersecurity and flexibility with LevelBlue's ZTNA
Secure remote access
Empower your workforce, strategic partners, and suppliers to connect with confidence
Minimize threats
Fight cybercrime by verifying explicitly, using least-privilege access, and assuming breach
Simplify your security
Eliminate the stress of separately managing apps, remote users, and supply chain partners
Stay compliant
Reduce your burden of using multiple products to meet compliance regulations
FAQs
How Does ZTNA Work? We have answers.
What is ZTNA?
At its most basic, ZTNA is an IT security solution that provides secure remote access to an organization’s applications, data, and services based on clearly defined access control policies. When ZTNA is in use, access to specific applications or resources is granted only after the user has been authenticated to the ZTNA service. Once authenticated, ZTNA then grants the user access to the specific application using an encrypted tunnel, which provides an extra layer of security protection by shielding applications and services. The ZTNA model was coined by Gartner in 2010 as “a product or service that creates an identity- and context-based, logical access boundary around an application or set of applications.”
How does ZTNA differ from the security offered by a VPN?
At the basic level, ZTNA differs from virtual private networks (VPNs) in that they grant access only to specific services or applications, while VPNs were designed to grant complete access to a local area network, offering a private, encrypted tunnel for remote employees to connect. A shortcoming to this approach is that once a user is granted access, they can reach anything on the network, leading to security gaps and policy enforcement problems. ZTNAs also overcome VPN shortcomings, including keeping pace with growing usage, which can outstrip a VPN’s ability to grow smoothly, and the challenges that VPNs present regarding installation and configuration of remote users.
Can ZTNA help support remote and hybrid work models?
The attack surface for cybercriminals has expanded, as enterprises transform to accommodate a hybrid workforce, migrate to a cloud-based data center model, and automate their SOCs. Those developments began to place additional strain on the ability of technologies, like VPNs, to guarantee security. ZTNA was developed as a way to simplify risk management by removing the concept of implicit trust. By limiting access, the ZTNA solution helps ensure that all network traffic — regardless of where it moves — is treated the same. As a result, organizations can now make security a single use case, no matter the situation, user, user location, or access method.
How does ZTNA handle user identity and verification?
The core idea underlying ZTNA’s approach to security is that once users are authorized, access is only granted on a one-to-one basis. Once authorized, the user is granted access to a specific app, rather than to the entire network. Segmentation prevents overly permissive access, along with the risk of lateral movement of malware, should any be introduced. By isolating the user/app access the risk to the network is significantly reduced.
What are the main benefits of adopting ZTNA?
The primary benefit is to heighten network security. By limiting access through single-use permission, ZTNA effectively answers the challenge of mounting successful cybersecurity in the face of multi-cloud environments for data storage, the growth of ‘bring-your-own-app’, and the move toward remote work. ZTNA offers a way to connect users, applications, and data, even when they do not reside on the organization’s network — a scenario increasingly common in today's multi-cloud environments where micro-services-based applications can reside on multiple clouds as well as on-premises. The ZTNA model helps eliminate the granting of excessive trust to employees, contractors, and other users who only need very limited access. The model expresses the concept that nothing is to be trusted until proven trustworthy, and more importantly that trust must be re-authenticated whenever anything about the connection (location, context, IP address, etc.) changes.
Will ZTNA integration affect my existing cybersecurity tools?
It’s best to think of ZTNA as a door that bars access to the room where all your tools are stored. Security is enhanced by granting permission on a one-time basis to specific users who need to access apps or data. One of the benefits of ZTNA is that it doesn’t require a significant re-design of your existing network. ZTNA can effectively help consolidate network and security tools, and has been shown to work seamlessly with such common network elements as endpoint protection platform (EPP), endpoint detection and response (EDR), extended detection and response (XDR), unified endpoint management (UEM), and software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN).
