Is it time to retire VPNs?
As legacy VPN vulnerabilities and AI-driven exploits expose corporate networks, zero-trust architecture is emerging as the imperative replacement, making systems invisible and preventing broad network access.
As legacy VPN vulnerabilities and AI-driven exploits expose corporate networks, zero-trust architecture is emerging as the imperative replacement, making systems invisible and preventing broad network access.
The short version
- For more than two decades, VPNs have been the de facto standard and the default way to connect remote users to the corporate network.
- It worked when employees sat in offices and applications ran in the data center.
- That world is gone, but the VPN has stuck around, and the security bill is now coming due.
What happened
Exploitation began just four days after disclosure in May, and CISA added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog weeks later, according to IBM X-Force . This is a pattern, not a bug This isn’t a Palo Alto issue; it’s a larger industry trend.
Why it matters
Look at the past 18 months across the major remote-access vendors: Ivanti Connect Secure (CVE-2026-104935).
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