Tailscale Lands $100 Million To ‘Transform’ Enterprise Vpns With Mesh Technology
05/04/22, 1:00 PM
Location
torontoMoney raised
$100 million
Zero trust security is an emerging paradigm in enterprise IT. It means that no one is trusted by default from inside or outside a network and verification is required from everyone trying to gain access to resources on the network. This added layer of protection has been shown to prevent data breaches, but surveys reveal that IT teams are struggling to implement it at their organizations. According to a February report from security vendor Optiv Security — admittedly not a neutral third party — only 21% of businesses have adopted zero trust as a “foundational model.” A separate report from Fortinet released the same month found that over 80% of companies believe implementing a zero-trust strategy across a network would be challenging.
Company Info
Location
toronto, ontario, canada
Additional Info
Pennarun says that, even if a company uses Tailscale to route public-facing browser traffic through nodes like Linux, Windows, macOS, and Android TV devices, only these devices see decrypted traffic or have any view into what traffic they’re sent. But by other metrics, the company has performed well in the face of competition from ZeroTier and Cloudflare One. In addition to hundreds of thousands of users on its free plan, which Tailscale recently debuted, the startup claims to have paying government clients as well as private sector customers including Oxide Computing Company, Dusty Robotics, and VersaBank. “By bridging the two, Tailscale provides an option that makes teams more productive, eliminating connectivity problems and complex network architecture, but also secure by default, because every connection is always secure.”Tailscale’s product is built on WireGuard, a communication protocol and open source software that implements encrypted VPNs in enterprise environments. Tailscale is razor-focused on user experience and security.”