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Securing Remote Work in Kenya: Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) vs Legacy Corporate VPNs

Published: Aug 01, 2026 Updated: Aug 01, 2026 Jay Digital Solutions Engineering Team
Securing Remote Work in Kenya: Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) vs Legacy Corporate VPNs

The Fundamental Flaw of Traditional VPNs

Traditional SSL-VPNs grant remote workers broad layer-3 network access to the entire corporate subnet upon successful authentication. If a remote worker's laptop is infected with ransomware, the malware can traverse laterally to internal database servers and backup repositories.

The Zero Trust Paradigm: Least Privilege Access

ZTNA operates on the principle of "never trust, always verify." Remote users authenticate through identity providers (e.g. Microsoft Entra ID) and are granted encrypted micro-tunnels strictly to individual authorized applications (e.g., internal ERP) without ever gaining general network subnet visibility.

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