It’s time to take your partners off your network
and give segmented application access instead.
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Access is overextended
when it comes to partners
Many enterprises have fallen victim to security breaches due to third-party partners. Whether that be through stolen credentials or infected devices, the results are the same, costly security breaches that put the network at risk and precious data being viewed without restraint.
With most remote access solutions, third-party partners are granted full network access. These over privileged users introduce high-risk to the enterprise since ultimately you do not control your partners, or the devices used to connect to your network.
So how do you cultivate strong and productive partnerships while also protecting your network and private applications?
Partners need application access, so why introduce them to the network?
With security threats becoming more advanced and dangerous, giving partners full and lateral access to your network is not sustainable. At the same time, it’s necessary to provide partners with access to a subset of private applications. What enterprises needs is a way to decouple application access from network access and segment access based on individual users and apps. The only way to achieve this is through software-defined perimeter (SDP) technology.
SDP is the modern approach to private application access technology. Whereas other remote access solutions are network-centric, SDP takes a fundamentally different approach and focuses on providing secure connectivity from user, whether an employee, third-party partner, or contractor, to only authorized enterprise applications, never the network. The result is micro-segmented access to applications, maintaining security of the network, while reducing the risk of attacks stemming from over-privileged third-party access.
Eliminating third-party risk is easy
with Software-defined access
Zscaler Private Access takes a user and application-centric approach to network security. Whether that user be an employee, contractor, or third-party partner, ZPA ensures that only authorized users have access to specific internal applications without ever giving access to the network. Rather than relying on physical or virtual appliances, ZPA uses lightweight infrastructure agnostic software, paired with browser access capabilities, to seamlessly connect all types of users to applications via inside-out connections stitched together within the Zscaler Security Cloud.
Software-defined perimeter concept
1. Browser Access Service
- Redirects traffic to IDP provider for authentication
- Removes need for client on device
2. Zscaler Enforcement Node (ZEN)
- Secures the user-to-app connection
- Enforces all customized admin policies
3. App Connector
- Sits in front of apps in cloud and data center
- Listens for access requests to apps
- No inbound connections. Responds with inside-out connections only
“Instead of trying to create a Citrix for users to connect to the environment and then go to the internal registration site to register their second factor tokens, we just expose this to ZPA through the ZPA client-less access and that works phenomenally.”
Casey Lee
Director of IT Security, National Oilwell Varco
Browser Access enables secure
partner access in minutes
With ZPA’s browser access, both third-party partners and users are given secure application access without the need of a client. Partners no longer need to jump through hoops to access enterprise applications, instead they simply use their own BYOD to effortlessly access internal apps over the internet. The outcome is highly controlled partner access that allows users to connect to private applications from any device, any location, and at any time.
Benefits
- Seamless experience for partners & users
- Secure app access from BYOD
- Support for all internal web apps
- Integrations with top IDP providers
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