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Secure Remote Access – An Engineer’s Pain

Engineering teams need secure access to dynamic hosts, services, and applications to productively do their jobs. VPNs, falling short of today’s security requirements with their “one size fits all” strategy, are often at the core of serious usability, manageability, and security issues. Lately, Zero Trust is all the buzz, and for good reason. In this post I'm going to discuss some remote access challenges felt by engineering teams that are beautifully solved with a Zero Trust

Written by Colin Rand October 19, 2020

Zero Trust Is Incomplete Without Continuous Authorization

… and continuous authorization is only possible with real-time device trust and a means to instantly revoke access.

Written by Brian Duckering July 08, 2020

Letter from the CEO

The recent disturbing incidents of racial injustice and the subsequent demonstrations for change have prompted us at Banyan to take stock of our role as a startup company, the values we live by and what we're doing about them. We'd like to live in a society where the color of your skin doesn't matter, where everyone is treated fairly, where people can express themselves freely, and where everyone is given a fair shot to thrive.

Written by Jayanth Gummaraju July 08, 2020

How To ZT: Roll out Zero Trust BeyondCorp security for your Enterprise by extending your Single Sign-On solution

This is the first in a series of blogs on “How To Zero Trust”, geared towards enterprise IT and security professionals. Our objective is to highlight real-world scenarios and practical solutions to improve the security posture of your organization toward Zero Trust access control. In this first post, we’ll address a common question we hear from many enterprise security professionals: How should an enterprise extend its Cloud Single Sign-On (SSO) to get to a Zero Trust

Written by Tarun Desikan June 24, 2020

The COVID-19 Quarantine Is Exposing The Challenges Of VPN-dependent Remote Access

User frustration and productivity loss should be a wake-up call as we accelerate the long-evolving trend toward the borderless enterprise.

Written by Brian Duckering May 04, 2020

A Practical Approach to Replacing VPNs with Zero Trust Access

Deciphering NIST Guidelines to replace your legacy VPN and deliver secure remote access. The world of Secure Remote Access has changed It’s almost become a cliché to say that cloud computing is growing, and there are numerous stats available that confirm the rapid move to the cloud. 451 Research has its own data to support this, as shown below. For me, there are a few interesting takeaways from the slide below. The first is the variety of locations where we are putting our

Written by Garrett Bekker April 13, 2020

Remote Insights: A Conversation with Colin Rand

Banyan Security is proud to introduce our newest team member: Colin Rand, vice president of engineering.

Written by Jayanth Gummaraju April 08, 2020

Banyan Supports New Remote Workers with Free Usage

In these unprecedented times, Banyan announced this week that we would provide free usage of our Zero Trust Remote Access Platform to help companies in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic. You can read the press release here, and this post we want to talk more about why.

Written by Anthony Alves March 23, 2020

Overcoming Obstacles: How a Human-Centric Approach is The Way to Secure Remote Access

Last year, I was obsessed with the book, The Obstacle is the Way, The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday. In the book, the author takes us back in time to visit with the writings of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, a general who recorded (for our benefit) how he met challenges in his diary, Meditations. And what we find time and time again is that whenever he was confronted by a new challenge or foe, he learned not to look at the immediate problem

Written by Jo McDougald February 25, 2020

RSA 2020 – Zeroing In On Trust

"We anticipate that the concept of Zero Trust security architectures will continue to dominate discussions at RSA and throughout 2020” – Melissa Franchi, Morgan Stanley analyst.

Written by Jo McDougald January 30, 2020