Security News > 2022 > March > SDP solutions are true ZTNA solutions: They trust no one

The fact of the matter is history has proven to us that VPNs are vulnerable to compromise - the VPNs themselves because of vulnerabilities in their code or traditional attacks like account takeover when multifactor authentication isn't enabled.

The pandemic forced companies to quickly issue VPN licenses to their entire workforce or, in the absence of VPNs in place, even deployed remote desktop protocol servers, which is even worse.

How is SDP an effective alternative to VPNs? VPNs are not a true zero trust network access solution.

With VPNs, you must assume the device running the VPN client hasn't been compromised, that split tunneling isn't turned on, MFA hasn't been compromised, and that the user's password hasn't been compromised.

As the vulnerability researcher who published the world's first vulnerability in VPNs over twenty-two years ago, it's unfathomable to think that VPNs are still in use today when more secure alternatives are available.

Built on zero trust security principals, SDP solutions eliminate the ATO threat introduced by VPNs, RDP servers, and desktop sharing applications for secure remote access.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/03/02/sdp-vpn/