VPN Replacement

75% of enterprises today are in some form of hybrid cloud deployment. Providing a seamless remote access solution that traverses this complex environment is a huge IT security challenge.

The problem

As enterprises embark on their digital transformation journey, they are looking to enable secure access across both on-premises and cloud deployments. Traditional solutions like VPNs are a network-layer approach and not designed to meet the needs of modern, complex hybrid cloud environments.

 

In addition, VPNs are a huge security liability as they offer broad access to sensitive corporate assets. With an increasing set of diverse users from employees to partners and contractors, access to these resources from a variety of remote locations and devices has made VPNs impossible to scale to the demands of modern hybrid enterprise.

Management Complexity

  • No centralized way to secure IaaS, on-prem, and SaaS applications specially if these applications can move across clouds.
  • Complex network-level policies to segment access, which have to be constantly updated to match dynamic user and application environments

Massive Security Gap

  • As VPNs are an ‘All or Nothing’ access solution, once access is granted via VPN, there is full access to the entirety of corporate resources. Malicious actors can now move laterally across the corporate ecosystem as VPNs provide broad access
  • One-time authorization approach makes it difficult to detect ‘abnormal’ activity or behavior

Poor Performance & Scale

  • Due to complexity in deployment, users experience performance delays and in many cases are often unable to access the applications due to VPN connectivity issues
  • VPNs are very expensive to acquire, maintain and upgrade

THE VPN ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION: BANYAN’S Secure hybrid cloud access

Banyan offers the most seamless secure remote access solution for your Hybid cloud environment.  As opposed to VPNs which are very in-flexible, complex to deploy and provide poor security, the Banyan Zero Trust Remote Access platform delivers the most comprehensive solution that scales to your hybrid cloud demands.  Designed to give you the highest security posture by offering deployment flexibility for any IaaS and on-premises environment, Banyan enables enterprises to own their data plane while offering simple management.

The Banyan remote access solution is comprised of three core components that together deliver a complete Zero Trust Remote Access solution.

First, we offer Trust Scoring capability for quantification of device and user and contextual factors. 

Next, we provide continuous authorization of access via our Cloud Command Center which is powered by Machine Learning engine.

And finally we offer real-time access enforcement based on the principal of least privilege. 

Improved Security Posture

  • Own your data plane and offer differentiated access to based on user, device, and other relevant attributes
  • Integrate with your existing PKI infrastructure / CAs to completely control the confidentiality and privacy of your data

Massive Management Simplicity

  • Homogeneous experience whether servers are deployed in IaaS, or On-Premises
  • Simplified experience whether IaaS, on-prem, or SaaS applications using our as-a-service Banyan offering

Seamless & Fast User Experience

  • Direct access to servers deployed on private clouds or Infrastructure as a Service
  • Supports general TCP protocols like MYSQL

The banyan approach

As enterprises increasingly move to hybrid or multi cloud environments, only Banyan offers a single platform to address the challenges of secure remote access for this ecosystem. The platform extends across on-premises to public cloud ecosystems enabling true management simplicity while offering the highest level of security posture.

 

The figure above shows in Steps 1-4 that access control checks are performed out of band to create a quantified trust score-based access paradigm matching with predefined least privilege access policies. 

Step 3 is an example of an integration with tools like SSO and MDM to ensure that existing tools can be leveraged to generate a trust score.

Step 5 shows that access is granted, and the data path is direct to the application across clouds seamlessly.

 

Key Features for Hybrid Cloud Environments

  • Integrate with your cloud infrastructure in AWS, Azure, GCP, or VMware and leverage their auto-scaling load balancers, DDoS protection systems
  • Write human-readable policies for differentiated access leveraging easy-to-use templates. Underneath the hood, a hybrid RBAC/ABAC system allows you to write highly custom policies, if needed
  • Passwordless access to application/servers

 

Modern application environments require Zero Trust Remote Access solutions like Banyan Security.

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