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Blog: Banyan @ Banyan Part II – Protecting R&D

This is the second in a series of blogs on dogfooding your own product. The first in this series covered how we approached compliance, and in this one we’ll look at how we went about protecting other critical R&D assets. In later posts, we’ll cover remote access and InfoSec, and finally productivity.

Written by Colin Rand November 17, 2020

Banyan @ Banyan Part I – Why Do I Enjoy Dogfood?

Dogfooding your own product is a long-standing tradition in software development. The benefits are many – from finding and fixing glitches before any customer rollout to developing empathy for th e end user (since that end user is you). Great stories arise from the efforts to deploy and use your own product and not surprisingly, our Banyan @ Banyan dogfooding program has yielded these benefits too. I’m going to share a few stories that explore our experience and help

Written by Colin Rand November 03, 2020

Zero Trust for SSH – Secure One-click Server Access for Software Engineering Teams

We’re excited to announce the latest capability in the Banyan Zero Trust Remote Access Platform – One-Click Server Access for Developers. Banyan Security provides you with a modern alternative to the stack of traditional security tools – such as VPNs, Bastion hosts, firewalls and authentication agents – that are used today to manage server access. Enterprise IT teams can give their developers a great SSH user experience and reduce the overall operational burden of

Written by Faraz Jamal October 28, 2020

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