We’re excited to introduce Axis Security! Application access for employees, partners, and other stakeholders is an essential component of an efficient, modern organization. Axis Security emerged from stealth mode today to solve this problem with a new approach designed to make private application access amazingly simple. We have been working hard these last 18 months...

The term “ZTNA,” zero trust network access, has been around for years - first bursting onto the scene in 2017 when Gartner dropped the term in their ZTNA Market Guide. This solution quickly became the starting point for most zero trust projects in the industry since it helped solve a relatively simple, but critical problem - finding more secure ways of providing remote access to internal applications. Unlike VPNs, the promise of ZTNA was to minimize the exposure of apps, keep remote users off the corporate network, and provide application-level segmentation instead of traditional network segmentation.

According to industry analyst, thought leader, and author Richard Stiennon’s newly published “Security Yearbook 2021”,  271 security vendors received new funding for a total of $10 billion in new investments in 2020. 225 vendors were acquired with private equity claiming the majority of M&A activity. The impact of COVID-19 slowed growth for many vendors as they expected...

Given the need to support hybrid work, Gartner heavily recommends that IT leaders consider a Security Service Edge (SSE) platform for the practical implementation of a zero trust strategy. An SSE platform largely incorporates these main technologies into a single offering: ZTNA, SWG, and CASB. Gartner recommends that SSE implementation should begin by prioritizing high areas of risk by replacing remote access VPN with a modern ZTNA solution. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2023, 60% of enterprises will phase out VPN technologies in favor of ZTNA.