Sophos ZTNA – Zero Trust Network Access
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Remote Access VPN has served us well, but was never designed for this new world. ZTNA provides a much better alternative for remote access by providing better security and threat protection, an easier more scalable management experience, and a more transparent frictionless experience for end-users.
Micro-Segment Your Applications
With VPN, you’re providing network access. With Sophos ZTNA you’re only providing specific application access. Your applications, users and devices are micro-segmented and with the integration of device health into access policies, and continuous authentication verification, you get much better security. This eliminates all the of implicit trust and the lateral movement that comes along with VPN.
Stop Ransomware and Other Threats
Hackers and attackers are leveraging poorly secured remote systems and VPN vulnerabilities to get a foothold on networks to deploy ransomware. Sophos ZTNA helps reduce the surface area and risk of a Ransomware attack by removing a new and growing vector. With ZTNA remote systems are no longer connected “to the network” and only have specific application access.
Onboard New Apps and Users Quickly
Sophos ZTNA is much leaner, cleaner, and therefore easier to deploy and manage than traditional remote access VPN. It enables better security and more agility in quickly changing environments with users coming and going – making day-to-day administration a quick and painless task and not a full-time job.
Top Six Advantages of ZTNA
Control Access to Apps and Data Based On User Identity and Device Health
Uniquely Integrated:
ZTNA and Next-Gen Endpoint
Sophos ZTNA is the only zero trust network access solution that is tightly integrated with a next-gen endpoint product – Sophos Intercept X.
End-to-End Protection
With Sophos ZTNA and Intercept X, you’re not just securing your application access, you’re also protecting your endpoints and network from Ransomware and other advanced threats with the most powerful machine learning and next-gen endpoint technology available. It’s holistic end-to-end protection that’s easier and more effective.
Synchronized Security
Sophos ZTNA and Intercept X are constantly sharing status and health information to automatically isolate compromised systems to prevent threats from moving or stealing data.
Single Agent, Single Console, Single Vendor
Sophos ZTNA and Intercept X are both part of the world’s most trusted cybersecurity ecosystem. They deploy together as a single client agent and are both managed together from Sophos Central. It’s a winning combination that you won’t find anywhere else.
Sophos ZTNA is cloud-delivered and cloud-managed and integrated into Sophos Central, the world’s most trusted cybersecurity cloud management and reporting platform.
- Manage ZTNA from the cloud, anywhere, on any device.
- Work with ZTNA alongside all your other Sophos products: Endpoint, Firewall, Wireless, Mobile, Server, and more.
- Deploy your ZTNA agent alongside your endpoint protection with just one click.
- Get at-a-glance insights into your application activity and your security posture from a single pane of glass.
Automatic Threat Response
Sophos ZTNA utilizes device health to automatically limit compromised devices from accessing business resources. It takes full advantage of its unique integration with the full Sophos ecosystem especially Sophos Intercept X endpoints.
Security Heartbeat
Share device health between Intercept X, Sophos Central, ZTNA, and Sophos Firewall in real time.
Automatic Threat Response
Compromised devices can have access automatically limited to isolate and contain threats, preventing lateral movement until they are cleaned up.
Deployment Alongside Intercept X
Get the world’s best endpoint protection and zero-trust network access with a single client deployment. No additional agents to install.
How It Works
Sophos ZTNA has been designed from the start to make zero trust network access easy, integrated, and secure.
Sophos ZTNA Client
The lightweight transparent and frictionless Sophos ZTNA client deploys alongside Sophos Intercept X endpoint protection (or any other endpoint product) with just one-click, greatly streamlining deployment and enrollment.
Sophos Central
Provides easy deployment, granular policy controls, and insightful visibility and reporting from the cloud. ZTNA is integrated with Intercept X to take full advantage of Synchronized Security and Security Heartbeat for device health.
Sophos ZTNA Gateway
Available as a virtual appliance on VMware and AWS that’s free and easy to deploy. It continuously verifies user identity and validates device health for secure access to applications in your public cloud or on-prem datacenter.