Company
Date Published
Author
Erin Risk
Word count
4925
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Cloudflare VPN is a cloud-based network service that leverages its content delivery network and DDoS protection infrastructure to provide secure access to users, resources, and cloud-based applications. It offers a Zero Trust alternative to legacy VPN systems by connecting users and resources through the nearest Cloudflare data center, creating an encrypted tunnel for secure communication. Cloudflare VPN provides advanced threat protection, improved user experience, end-to-end encryption, security policies set by identity and device, and detailed user and device activity logging. However, it has limitations such as all company data passing through Cloudflare's infrastructure and work-related or not, all user traffic passes through Cloudflare by default. Twingate is another solution that delivers a modern approach to secure access control based on Zero Trust, eliminating the performance, usability, and security liabilities of legacy VPN technologies. Twingate creates a more complete separation between the control plane and the data plane, providing direct connections between users and protected resources, advanced security features, and simpler administration through unified consoles.