How Zero-Trust Network Access Is Replacing VPNs

Cybersecurity Business with Fexingo: Security Companies, Breaches, and Enterprise Defense · Jul 23, 2026 · 11m · transcript

Episode 129 of Cybersecurity Business explores how enterprises are migrating from traditional VPNs to zero-trust network access (ZTNA). Lucas and Luna discuss the CrowdStrike outage in July 2024 that accelerated the shift, the specific security weaknesses of VPNs — including lateral movement risks and credential theft — and how ZTNA architectures enforce least-privilege access. They break down the differences between ZTNA and VPNs, using Zscaler as a key example, and examine why the zero-trust model is particularly relevant in a cloud-first, remote-work world. Concrete data points include a…