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Making the Internet Safe for Work in a World Stricken with Ransomware

If you’re an IT security leader, this goes without being said – ransomware is the worst.  While the Internet continues to unlock new ways for businesses to increase routes to revenue, deliver great employee and customer experiences, and cut costs – cyber thugs have unleashed a slew of ransomware attacks that target legacy network architectures....

By Jaye Tillson

August 9, 2023



The ZTNA Evolution – My Journey

As many of you know, I was an early adopter of Zero trust Network Access (ZTNA) while working in my previous role, which led me to work at Axis today. As our contract was coming up for renewal, I did what all IT folks do and went out on the market to see what had...

By Jaye Tillson

March 13, 2023



Architecting to Protect Against Ransomware

So, for anyone that has been in IT for the last 10+ years, you will know that the risk of ransomware and cyberattack is not something new. It’s been on our radar as a top concern for many years. The difference now is the prevalence of attacks on large global companies which has raised this...

By Jaye Tillson

March 8, 2023



When to replace, or complement, a VDI Environment with a Security Service Edge (SSE) platform

The majority of organizations use some kind of VDI environment for remote access today. Whether it’s for their employees looking to access private resources for day to day life, a recent merger or acquisition, or third-party user access. Popular VDI technologies include on-premises VDI solutions like Vmware Horizon, Citrix XenDesktop, or Desktop-as-a-Service options like Amazon...

By Christopher Hines

January 29, 2023



Top 6 Security Predictions for 2023

The pandemic created a huge shift in the workforce. Users got up from their desks, went home, and decided to stay there. As a result, users, devices, and data are now everywhere. This new way of working causes those of us in networking and security major challenges. The old castle and moat design no longer...

By Jaye Tillson

January 10, 2023



2023: The year of SASE? Not So Fast Says SSE!!!

If you’ve not downloaded the first ever SSE Adoption report conducted by CyberSecurity Insiders, do! CyberSecurity Insiders, is a 500,000+ member online community for information security professionals, bringing together the best minds dedicated to advancing cybersecurity and protecting organizations across all industries, company sizes, and security roles. They are a comprehensive source for everything related...

By John Spiegel

January 10, 2023



Top FAQs from CxOs | 2022 Winter Release Edition

Just over a week ago, Axis launched its biggest product release of all time. The response has been tremendous and prospects and customers alike are continuing to inquire about the 2022 Atmos Winter Release. Maybe you have questions too, if so, check out the top FAQs from CxOs we received in the last week: What...

By Jaye Tillson

December 21, 2022



The Gift of SSE for your Networking Team

Networking in today’s world is hard enough as it is, especially when connectivity needs to be from everywhere. During this holiday “SSEason,” Axis wants to give the gift of making you and your team’s lives easier. Our new 2022 Atmos Winter Release has some major new features that we hope your networking team and end-users...

By Jaye Tillson

December 13, 2022



Bring unity to your DLP this Holiday SSEason

Data. Clive Humby, the British Mathematician said it best in 2006, “Data is the new oil”. These zeros and ones stored in virtually every corner of the world now power industries and hold tremendous power in decisions companies make. Where do I invest, what are my customers doing, and critically, what does the future hold?...

By John Spiegel

December 13, 2022



The Single Vendor SASE Unicorn Halloween Costume

If you are unfamiliar with single vendor SASE, here is what it is. Per Gartner, SASE is a converged network and security service which is delivered as a service. It “enables zero trust access based on the identity of the user, device or entity, combined with real-time context (such as device security posture) to enforce...

By John Spiegel

October 31, 2022



Defending yourselves from cybersecurity ghosts, vampires, and zombies

It’s very likely that as a kid you would have dressed up as something scary for Halloween and walked around your neighborhood filling buckets with sweets. I couldn’t wait for Halloween. Even as I got older, I would look after my younger cousins (stealing some of their sweets in the process), or meet up with...

By Jaye Tillson

October 31, 2022



This new series is the first ever to teach IT architects how to adopt Zero Trust

Where it all began I spent the first 25+ years of my career running global architecture teams for large multinational companies. I collaborated with and learned from my peers at some of the largest Fortune 2,000 companies in the world. We designed and implemented an architecture that enabled our businesses to transform. Security was but...

By Jaye Tillson

October 25, 2022



Dirty appliances: The hidden environmental costs of VPN gateways

Another reason not to like your VPN. In networking we often discuss routing, packets, protocols and latency.  It’s always been our lifeblood and our passion.  Another area we are passionate about is hardware.  A new router, firewall, switch or network appliance will elicit numerous debates and send us to a world of what if?  What...

By John Spiegel

October 17, 2022



CxOs: Here’s how to budget for success during your Security Service Edge (SSE) project

Make budgeting easier when it’s time to modernize your access infrastructure. The air has a crispness to it, kids are back in school and the afternoon shadows are growing longer. For me, Fall has always been the season when the last revisions for projects and business as usual (BAU) budget requests were finalized. It was one of...

By John Spiegel

October 6, 2022



Five People That Should Make Up Your Modern Day ZTNA Tiger Team

The importance of multidisciplinary skill set, and the teammates you’ll need to succeed – based on 80s TV crossover episodes! As a kid who grew up on a steady diet of network TV in the 80s, I always got excited when a crossover was teased at the end of an episode.  Take the original Magnum...

By John Spiegel

August 2, 2022



Why I Migrated from ZTNA 1.0 to Modern Day ZTNA

ZTNA – The Beginning In 2017 Gartner unveiled a new acronym “ZTNA” short for zero trust network access, and released the Market Guide for Zero Trust Network Access. Revolutionary, especially compared to its incumbent technologies like VPN,  ZTNA solution quickly became a new form of remote access that was designed to replace traditional remote access...

By Jaye Tillson

August 2, 2022



The ZTNA Collection

Welcome to the ZTNA Collection, a curated list of the top favorite Zero Trust Network Access assets. Enjoy the array of glossary pages, blogs, videos, and whitepapers all specific to ZTNA thought leadership.

By Camilla Ahlquist

July 25, 2022



ZTNA, It’s Not Just a Remote Access Thing Anymore…

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.

By John Spiegel

July 25, 2022



10 things to ask the ZTNA vendor on your next discovery call that you probably never knew to ask

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.

By Christopher Hines

July 14, 2022



Remove the Zero Trust onboard headache with this new domain discovery tool

In this new world of hybrid work where users, data, and applications are everywhere, there has been an increased reliance on web-based applications and for good reason. Web apps allow greater accessibility, flexibility, and scalability of resources for users requiring access from anywhere. While web applications are great, IT teams oftentimes encounter onboarding issues, specifically around discovering unidentified domains, and easily defining new policies for those discovered resources.

By Jaye Tillson

June 24, 2022



Digital Experience Monitoring In the Age of Distributed Work

If you are not familiar with Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), put simply, it is a tool to measure the performance of the application user/device, the network path and the application. The concept is to gain a view into how the device/user to application interaction is performing. As performance can be degraded by a number of issues; high CPU on a device, a bad software patch, poor wi-fi, poor Internet performance or an over utilized application front end load balancer to name a few, finding the needle in the technology haystack is a difficult challenge for the modern enterprise. This became even more apparent over the last 24 months with the rise of the distributed workforce. Now both applications and the workforce live outside the walls of the modern enterprise company. Thus, having a tool to measure digital experience is no longer a want or desire. It is a requirement!

By John Spiegel

June 22, 2022



How to Prepare for The Evolving Threat of Ransomware

Last week, when Russia advanced past Ukrainian borders we began to hear about the coordinated, hybrid attacks - spanning both cyber warfare and physical warfare - that lead up to the event. Phishing emails sent to the State Administration of Seaports of Ukraine sent earlier in February as a sort of advanced attack against Ukrainian ports. A new data wiper malware installed on hundreds of machines across Ukraine - reported within hours of Russia invading.

By Christopher Hines

February 27, 2022



VIDEO: ZTNA vs VPN

With the emergence of remote work, IT leaders have had to react quickly, many decide to simply buy more VPNs. Now years later, 77% of companies will make hybrid work a permanent fixture. They're looking for better alternatives for application connectivity. The new reality is that user experience is key to productivity. Ransomware has grown 500% year over year, and VPNs are one of the largest culprits because they allow network access. The constant game of adding hardware appliances and managing that infrastructure is becoming more expensive from a CapEx and OPEX perspective.

By Christopher Hines

January 20, 2022



6 Questions IT Leaders Are Asking About Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)

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.

By Camilla Ahlquist

December 21, 2021



The Role of Zero Trust in Enabling Hybrid Work

Increasingly mobile workforces bring with them an increasing level of risk. With work happening at home, the office, and really anywhere, security MUST be the same no matter who, what, when, where and how business data is being accessed.

By Camilla Ahlquist

December 8, 2021



Zero doubt about the direction of zero trust security

The adoption of zero trust is about to change dramatically. In May, the Biden administration announced its cybersecurity Executive Order (EO), stressing the urgency of modernized access and cybersecurity defenses. Consequently, many enterprises can no longer ignore the necessity of investing in zero trust architectures.

By Dor Knafo

November 3, 2021



How do Hackers Hack – An Experiment in Open Portal Attacks

What is a honeypot, you may ask? The term comes from the world of espionage, wherein spies used romance as a way to steal secrets, which was called setting a ‘honey trap’ or ‘honeypot’. The cyber version works in a similar way - creating a sacrificial computer system that is designed to sit on the internet and look innocent and unprotected, mimicking a target for hackers. It uses their attacks to gain information about the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by malicious actors.

By Jaye Tillson

July 23, 2021



What rose more than 1500% in the past year?

The price of Bitcoin, meme stocks and attacks targeting VPNs, according to a new...

By Tamir Hardof

July 6, 2021



The Limits of Legacy VPN Remote Access

There’s no denying that the way we work has changed dramatically over the last year. Most employees are now working remotely and, along with ever-growing ecosystems of partners and third parties, need access to company applications and data from wherever they work. The threat landscape has also changed.  Bad actors are increasingly taking advantage of...

By Tamir Hardof

February 23, 2021



Protecting Vulnerable Apps – SolarWinds SUPERNOVA

SolarWinds customers are having a rough season. Research on the highly sophisticated SUNBURST compromise also uncovered SUPERNOVA, a separate but also ongoing threat campaign.  Now IT security teams are scrambling to mitigate the impact of both issues. SUPERNOVA targets SolarWinds customers directly by exploiting a SolarWinds Orion code vulnerability. Here’s a summary on how SUPERNOVA...

By Shay Shwartz and Deena Thomchick

January 7, 2021



Secure Access Challenges for the Modern Enterprise

Today’s modern world needs modern solutions to keep up with the pace of change. More than ever before, this year has made it a priority for enterprises to evolve to meet the needs of remote workers, contractors, and 3rd party partners needing to connect to the apps and resources required to get work done. Enterprises...

By Deena Thomchick

December 10, 2020



What is Zero Trust Application Access & Why is it Important

Secure Application Access for Remote Workers The world is changing faster than ever before. Everything that we’ve become accustomed to, like office banter and conference room lunch meetings has shifted to Zoom meetings and Slack chats. We know that work-from-home has been growing in popularity over the last few years, but now with COVID-19, remote...

By Deena Thomchick

November 10, 2020



The Continuous & Adaptive Promise of Zero Trust

Once upon a time, a user or machine entity was evaluated and determined to be trusted, then it was allowed inside the perimeter of the organization and given unfettered access to internal resources. Everyone lived happily ever after. The end. Yeah, no. Today we understand the reality of our dynamic environment and we know that...

By Deena Thomchick

September 29, 2020


Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) vs. Zero Trust Application Access (ZTAA)
Zero Trust security has become a huge topic of conversation in the cybersecurity industry. Because zero trust always takes the posture of “never trust, always verify” common to the way many businesses operate, it delivers the opportunity for them to remain both business-focused and data secure. But, what is the best way to enable Zero Trust...

What Is Zero Trust?
Zero Trust is a data security approach that focuses on not trusting any users inside or outside of an organization in order to protect important resources. With this methodology, networks and security systems start from a posture of denying trust by default and work to incrementally open access to users while continuously evaluating risk. This...