By choice as well as necessity, the remote workforce is growing rapidly. Companies may supply remote workers with corporate-owned devices. Likewise, with the evolution and affordability of consumer technology, it’s not uncommon for workers to use their own devices. Either way, when workers have needed to access corporate systems and files, a VPN has been the security solution of choice. However, traditional VPNs come with liabilities. VPNs are complex to manage, and they are slow changing. They also introduce networklevel security risks, are not scalable, provide a poor user experience, and are not privacy-friendly. To meet security, performance, and scalability requirements for remote workers, Citrix provides a cloud based, VPN-less solution to access all intranet web, SaaS, mobile and virtual applications using managed, unmanaged and Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) over any network. The old castle-and-moat security model of traditional VPNs has been surpassed by the strict principles of a zero trust framework, which, instead, contextualizes access based on request.
Why a Traditional VPN Solution is Not Apt for Today’s Remote Workforce
By choice as well as necessity, the remote workforce is growing rapidly. Companies may supply remote workers with corporate-owned devices. Likewise, with the evolution and affordability of consumer technology, it’s not uncommon for workers to use their own devices. Either way, when workers have needed to access corporate systems and files, a VPN has been the security solution of choice. However, traditional VPNs come with liabilities. VPNs are complex to manage, and they are slow changing. They also introduce networklevel security risks, are not scalable, provide a poor user experience, and are not privacy-friendly. To meet security, performance, and scalability requirements for remote workers, Citrix provides a cloud based, VPN-less solution to access all intranet web, SaaS, mobile and virtual applications using managed, unmanaged and Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) over any network. The old castle-and-moat security model of traditional VPNs has been surpassed by the strict principles of a zero trust framework, which, instead, contextualizes access based on request.