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 and security challenge.

The Problem

As enterprises progress on their digital transformation journey, they must enable secure remote access across their on-premises and cloud deployments. Traditional network-centric solutions like VPNs are not designed to meet the scale, performance, and usability needs of modern organizations, especially with complex hybrid cloud environments.

VPNs create a huge security liability as they offer overly-broad access to sensitive corporate assets and permit the kind of lateral movement that adversaries use for ransomware and other illegal activity. With an increasing set of diverse users from employees and contractors to partners, access to these resources from a variety of remote locations and devices has made VPNs struggle to meet the demands of the modern hybrid enterprise.

Management Complexity

No centralized way to secure IaaS, on-premises, and SaaS applications especially 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

VPNs grant full access to a network’s resources, allowing malicious actors with VPN access to move laterally across the corporate ecosystem.
One-time authorization approach fails to provide real-time detection or enforcement of detected abnormal activity.

Poor Performance & Scale

Due to deployment complexity, users experience performance delays and are often unable to access applications due to VPN connectivity issues.
VPNs can be very expensive to acquire, maintain, and upgrade.

The Superior Solution: Banyan Zero Trust Remote Access

Banyan offers the most seamless secure remote access solution for your hybrid cloud environment. As opposed to inflexible VPNs which are complex to deploy and provide poor security, the Banyan Zero Trust Remote Access platform is a comprehensive solution that scales to your hybrid and multi-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.

Three key building blocks are brought together in the Banyan Zero Trust Remote Access solution.

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

Next, we provide continuous authorization of access via our Cloud Command Center, powered by a machine learning engine.

And finally we offer real-time, decentralized access policy 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-premises, 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 VPN Replacement

Integrate with your cloud infrastructure in AWS, Azure, GCP, or VMware and leverage their auto-scaling load balancers and 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