About Zero Trust Access Sessions
While a client using Secure Access ZTA exchanges network traffic on private resources or internet destinations, the client's ZTA session is active. Secure Access proxies the network traffic on the ZTA session to the private resources or internet destinations. When an end user's ZTA connection is not in use for a specific time period, the client's ZTA session expires.
Secure Access manages the timeout intervals of the ZTA sessions for the Cisco Secure Client. After a user's ZTA session expires and then the Secure Client requests a private resource or internet destination, Secure Access reconnects the session automatically and transparently for the end user.
Secure Access determines when the ZTA session timeout occurs based on the session's network traffic, IPS and file malware scanning settings enabled in the Access policy, and the protocol and ports used to connect to the private resources or internet destinations.
Note: For browser-based Secure Access ZTA, browsers manage the ZTA sessions and timeout intervals transparently.