Legacy 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. Network-centric solutions like traditional VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) are not designed to meet modern organizations’ scale, performance, and usability needs, especially with complex hybrid cloud environments.

Management Complexity
- No centralized way to secure IaaS, on-premises, and SaaS applications especially if 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
- Legacy VPN solutions grant full access to network resources, allowing malicious actors with VPN access to move laterally across the corporate ecosystem.
- One-time authentication approaches fail 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, Banyan’s comprehensive Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution scales to your hybrid and multi-cloud demands. Banyan’s VPN alternative is 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 Access solution.
First, we offer Trust Scoring for quantification of user, device, and contextual factors to determine risk.
Next, we provide continuous authorization of access via our Cloud Command Center.
And finally we offer real-time, decentralized access policy enforcement based on the principle of least privilege.
Improved Security Posture
- Own your data plane and provide differentiated access 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 (IaaS)
- Supports general TCP protocols like MySQL

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