Zero-Trust Access

Computer Science, IAM

Zero-Trust Access

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A cloud-based VPN solution that attempts to address two issues of traditional VPNs:

• The additional network hop created by VPN concentrators located in data-centers to access cloud-based services, causing latency.

• The increased attack surface created by the same VPN concentrators.

ZTA resides in the cloud, and access is only granted to the application the user needs.

Two flavors of ZTA are:

• Identity-Aware Proxy (Dictionary Entry)

• Software-Defined Perimeter (Dictionary Entry)

• Turner, 2020

• Identity-Aware Proxy (Dictionary Entry) Specialized Term

• Software-Defined Perimeter (Dictionary Entry) Specialized Term

• Virtual Private Network (Dictionary Entry) Related Term

• ZTA Acronym