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Virtual private network (VPN) usage soared in March 2020 as employers sought to connect a growing number of homebound employees to company resources. But limitations of VPNs—namely, drawbacks in security and scalability—have left an opening for a technology area known as “zero-trust network access” (ZTNA), according to industry consultants. VPN’d While a VPN provides an encrypted tunnel to a network, its benefits don’t always impress IT pros. Scalability: The road gets crowded—and network performance potentially degraded—when a whole work-from-home workforce bottlenecks to the same destination. “If you’re going to scale big and you’re...