Cloudflare Acquires BastionZero to Add Zero Trust Infrastructure Access Controls for Cloudflare One, the World’s Largest Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Network
Acquisition adds secure remote infrastructure access to
Combined with existing Cloudflare One capabilities, the acquisition of BastionZero gives IT and security teams
With traditional virtual private network (VPN) security set-ups, developers and systems architects are granted overly permissive and long-lived access to a company’s most sensitive systems, such as servers and databases. In a world of hybrid work, this is an increasingly costly, risky, and outdated approach, hindering the ability to securely deploy new systems and react to a fast-changing business environment.
“The world of work has changed dramatically. Employees have the expectation that they can effectively do their work from anywhere. There’s no reason why teams managing an organization’s most important systems can’t have the same flexibility,” said
Adding BastionZero’s technology to Cloudflare One will give hybrid and remote IT teams access to their most critical assets remotely, resulting in:
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Increased security: Eliminating the need and risk of long-lived passwords and credentials by making it even easier to abide by
Zero Trust principles for system access. - Increased compliance: Ensuring just-in-time permissions for every person trying to access core systems and servers—such as developers and systems administrators—even if they’re working remotely, while following centralized policy controls with identity-aware logging.
- Increased control: Enabling individuals to have access to information and systems only when they need it with “just-in-time” policy options.
- Reduced complexity: Removing the need for legacy workaround security patches between systems (e.g. jump hosts) and more quickly granting access across complex infrastructure with policy controls and observability.
“Scalable and secure remote access to company servers and other infrastructure is table stakes for every IT and development team,” said
Launched in 2020, Cloudflare One is one of the fastest-growing platforms for secure access service edge (SASE) and security service edge (SSE) services. Companies worldwide rely on Cloudflare One to ensure only the right employees have access to the right internal systems and data at the right time with minimal burden on employees. This acquisition will expand
According to GartnerⓇ, “Over the next five years, the market for secure access service edge will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 29%, reaching over
Cloudflare One is a key part of Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud, enabling organizations to bring more IT security tools onto a single platform and making it easier to implement secure access to all their resources, from developer access to technical infrastructure to ever-expanding cloud services.
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- Blog: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-acquires-bastionzero
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Gartner Forecast analysts: secure access service edge, worldwide,
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