ZTNA 2.0 Gains Multicloud Ground in Palo Alto Networks Customer Base

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Citing the security, scale, and speed benefits of deploying Zero Trust Network Access 2.0 (ZTNA) in multicloud environments, Palo Alto Networks Ignite '22 speeches and talks claim that the new standard is gaining momentum.

"All of the intelligence behind Zero Trust is actually in the cloud, which means once you operationalize us (Palo Alto Networks) in one location or form factor, the next is really easy," Lee Klarich, Chief Product Officer of Palo Alto Networks, said during his "Out-Innovating the Attackers" keynote at Ignite '22 last week.

ZTNA 2.0 is a new industry standard proposed by Palo Alto Networks earlier this year, based on their belief that the existing zero trust standard is too reliable, allowing implicit trust gaps to occur on persistent connections.

Security officials advocating ZTNA 2.0 say there needs to be stricter enforcement of least privileged access from the third to seventh layers of the OSI model. Proponents point to the lack of real-time trust verification in the upper layers of the model.

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With more than 61,000 active firewall customers based on their Q1 FY2023 quarterly results presentation, Palo Alto Networks is uniquely positioned to drive a new zero-trust standard that capitalizes on continuous monitoring and their expertise in real-time network traffic analysis.

ZTNA 2.0 Upgrade Expectations

It's important to keep an organization's broader strategic initiatives in mind when evaluating ZTNA, ZTNA 2.0, and zero trust in general. Zero-trust frameworks are most effective when they support, reinforce, and protect new digital business initiatives and secure virtual organizations. Investing in cybersecurity and zero trust is a critical business decision for the future growth of any organization. Getting it right means tailoring zero trust to a company's unique security and risk management needs.

VentureBeat spoke with several IT leaders at Ignite 22 who said they have implemented Prisma Cloud from Palo Alto Networks and are continuing progress on the ZTNA 2.0 report. Most of them deal with multicloud and hybrid cloud infrastructure challenges that the combination of Prisma Cloud and ZTNA 2.0 helps solve.

None, however, views ZTNA 2.0 as the one-size-fits-all solution to its zero-trust framework goals. Instead, they need Prisma Cloud and ZTNA 2.0 to solve complex multicloud and hybrid cloud security challenges that demand scale and speed.

SASE, Multi-Cloud Deployments Ease ZTNA 2.0 Adoption

Palo Alto Networks says ZTNA 2.0 also allows users to access network sources from anywhere through the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), simplifies the need for traditional network perimeter controls, and that cloud-based deployment can accelerate time to implementation. The company also claims that ZTNA 2.0 is...