Company
Date Published
Author
Alex Marshall
Word count
3128
Language
English
Hacker News points
156

Summary

Twingate is a modern remote access solution designed to improve security posture without introducing compromise and headaches around deployment. The company was founded after customer research revealed that traditional VPNs were broken, serving user needs poorly and introducing complexity into infrastructure decisions. Twingate's design takes a "no compromises" approach to security, using standards-based cryptographic techniques to encrypt and authorize network traffic. The product is simple to deploy, with users self-installing the client app and authenticating using existing credentials. It aims to restore the balance between security and ease of use, addressing the traditional "castle and moat" perimeter-based approach to network security that persists despite changes in how we work over the past 20 years. Twingate's deployment model is incredibly simple, requiring only a connector behind the firewall on any network that needs remote access, defining destination resources, and having users self-install the client app. The product promises to virtually eliminate network attack surfaces and improve user experiences without pain.