Remote working did not change the threat landscape. It erased the perimeter. Your users are connecting from home offices, co-working spaces, hotel networks, and personal devices. Each connection is a potential risk that your existing VPN was never designed to manage at scale. Edge7 Networks replaces fragile remote access infrastructure with zero trust access controls and cloud-delivered security that follows your users wherever they work.
Your VPN was designed for occasional remote access. A handful of people connecting from home when they needed to. That model broke the moment hybrid working became permanent.
Today, most of your users are outside the office most of the time. The VPN is struggling under the load. Users experience slow connections, dropped sessions, and application performance that makes working from home frustrating enough that people find workarounds. Those workarounds are where the risk lives.
Beyond performance, the bigger problem is architectural. Traditional VPN puts remote users inside the network perimeter. Once connected, they have access to far more than they need. A compromised device on the VPN is an attacker with broad network access. Cloud applications make the problem worse. Traffic backhauling through the office VPN adds latency and punishes productivity. The network you built to protect your infrastructure is degrading the way your people work.
Zero trust network access replaces VPN by enforcing access at the application layer, not the network layer. Each user can only reach the applications they are authorised for, regardless of where they are connecting from. A compromised device cannot traverse the network because there is no network to traverse.
Users cannot connect from a device that does not meet your security standards. Patch status, endpoint protection, disk encryption, and corporate ownership checks happen at the point of connection. Devices that do not meet policy are quarantined or redirected to remediation, not given access.
Traffic to cloud-hosted applications no longer backhauled through your office network. Edge7 Networks deploys cloud-delivered security at the edge, inspecting traffic close to the user. Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and other SaaS platforms respond faster because the path between user and application is shorter.
Administrators, developers, and third-party contractors accessing critical systems are subject to enhanced controls. Privileged access management ensures that sensitive systems can only be accessed through controlled, auditable sessions. Credentials are vaulted, sessions are recorded, and access is time-limited.
Every user, every device, every connection is logged. Who connected, from where, from what device, to which application, for how long. That telemetry feeds your SOC or your audit reports, depending on what you need it for.
This is not a VPN replacement bolted onto your existing infrastructure. It is an architectural change, designed and operated end to end.
Secure Service Edge delivers cloud-native access control, web filtering, and data loss prevention for every user session. Zero trust policies replace VPN tunnel access with per-application authorisation. Users access what they need. Nothing more. Built on HPE Aruba SSE.
More on SSE and ZTNAIdentity is the new perimeter. MFA enforcement, conditional access policies, single sign-on, and privileged access controls are managed and monitored. Attackers who obtain credentials cannot reach critical systems without the access controls that block them.
More on identity and PAMFor organisations that want endpoint visibility alongside access control. EDR/XDR on every device gives your security team forensic visibility into what is happening at the endpoint before and after a user connects.
More on EDR/XDRWe audit how users currently connect and what they have access to. VPN configuration, Active Directory structure, privileged account inventory, BYOD exposure, and cloud application access patterns.
Edge7 Networks designs the zero trust access architecture for your organisation. Application access policies, device posture requirements, privileged access rules, and identity integration.
We start with the highest-risk user groups before rolling out to the broader organisation. VPN is retired only when zero trust access is working reliably for all user groups.
Edge7 Networks manages and monitors the access control layer. Policy updates, user provisioning, device posture adjustments, and security event review. Continuous, without an operational burden on your team.
You need a secure access architecture that works reliably for every user without generating a constant stream of support tickets and VPN complaints.
You need a partner who can design and execute the transition to zero trust without disrupting the business while doing it.
Contractors and third parties need controlled, auditable, time-limited access rather than shared credentials and persistent VPN tunnels.
Guides and assessments to help you evaluate your remote access posture and plan a migration to zero trust.
Why zero trust is an architectural approach rather than a box you buy, and where to start.
A staged roadmap for moving from legacy VPN to zero trust network access.
How identity and privileged access underpin secure remote and hybrid access.
You will know the engineers who manage your access controls. They will know your environment. Not a rotating cast of contractors. The people who designed the solution are the people who run it.
SSE and ZTNA work best when they are aligned with the underlying network architecture. Edge7 Networks manages both disciplines. No disconnect between the access policy and the network it operates on.
SLAs cover access reliability, policy enforcement, and response times. Monthly reviews assess whether secure access is working for your users. If it is not, Edge7 Networks fixes it. That is the job.
Remote access is one of the most common entry points for attackers and one of the most overlooked areas of investment. A conversation will show you where the risk sits and what a modern access architecture looks like in practice.