Twingate Private Access
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Twingate is a major improvement over our previous VPN solution
What do you like best about the product?
Twingate allowed us to very easily move to a model of zero-trust networking and drop our previous OpenVPN-based solution entirely. We have now removed all instances in our private network with public IP addresses and our attack surface has been greatly reduced.
Setting it up was as simple as running their Docker image in all of the private networks that we want to allow restricted access to.
We quickly configured multiple different user groups within the Twingate admin panel and were able to restrict access to a subset of resources within each of our networks, per-group. For example, we created a "Business Analyst" group that only had access to our data warehouse, and a "Data Engineer" group that had access to the data warehouse and a couple of other resources to support that system. This level of granularity would have been much harder to accomplish using a tool like OpenVPN.
Installation of the Twingate was incredibly simple - the client is easily downloaded and configured for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
Authentication is linked to our GSuite account. This means we no longer have to create new VPN users when we onboard an employee, and it also means that access is immediately revoked when an employee leaves the organization is removed from GSuite.
There are still some features we haven't taken advantage of, like adding MFA when SSHing into a production instance, but we look forward to exploring these features as we build out the integration further.
Setting it up was as simple as running their Docker image in all of the private networks that we want to allow restricted access to.
We quickly configured multiple different user groups within the Twingate admin panel and were able to restrict access to a subset of resources within each of our networks, per-group. For example, we created a "Business Analyst" group that only had access to our data warehouse, and a "Data Engineer" group that had access to the data warehouse and a couple of other resources to support that system. This level of granularity would have been much harder to accomplish using a tool like OpenVPN.
Installation of the Twingate was incredibly simple - the client is easily downloaded and configured for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
Authentication is linked to our GSuite account. This means we no longer have to create new VPN users when we onboard an employee, and it also means that access is immediately revoked when an employee leaves the organization is removed from GSuite.
There are still some features we haven't taken advantage of, like adding MFA when SSHing into a production instance, but we look forward to exploring these features as we build out the integration further.
What do you dislike about the product?
One downside of Twingate is that the upfront cost is expensive than our previous solution (OpenVPN). However, with OpenVPN, we were running it ourselves on our 2 EC2 instances and had to manage and maintain those servers. Despite the higher upfront cost, we decided to switch to Twingate anyway because we felt like we were getting a lot more value.
Another downside is that we're now trusting another company with an incredibly important part of our infrastructure. If Twingate goes down, employees won't be able to access resources in our private networks. This is a risk we're willing to take, and we know that Twingate takes it seriously as well.
Another downside is that we're now trusting another company with an incredibly important part of our infrastructure. If Twingate goes down, employees won't be able to access resources in our private networks. This is a risk we're willing to take, and we know that Twingate takes it seriously as well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Twingate has allowed us to very quickly give employees access to remote, private resources, and secure those resources based on different access-levels within our organization.
Since setting it up, we've saved time with each new onboarded employee, and have decreased the overall access each employee has to different parts of our infrastructure.
Since setting it up, we've saved time with each new onboarded employee, and have decreased the overall access each employee has to different parts of our infrastructure.
We dropped our corporate VPN for Twingate and there is no going back!
What do you like best about the product?
We switched from corporate VPN to Twingate in 24hrs for our 300 people organization across 3 continents. So ease of deployment is definitely way up there. We kept the VPN as a backup for a while in case there were access issues but never had to use it (reliability - check!). Our international teams had much faster access to AWS and other cloud resources as the access didn't have to go through a single corporate choke point (speed!). Unlike VPNs there is no public attack surface (Security)
What do you dislike about the product?
- Would love access control at the port level
- Would like to see better visualization/analytics in the dashboard
I hear those enhancements are in the future releases.
- Would like to see better visualization/analytics in the dashboard
I hear those enhancements are in the future releases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Eliminates public attack surfaces
- Granular least-privilege access
- Easy to deploy & manage
- Fast and Reliable
- Granular least-privilege access
- Easy to deploy & manage
- Fast and Reliable
Easy access management for cloud resources, better security than VPN or IP allow lists
What do you like best about the product?
Access management for our AWS resources is now much easier via Twingate’s web admin dashboard. Before that, my teams were constantly wrestling with getting our users on VPN or maintaining everyone’s home IP addresses in an allow list. Glad to be using the latest and greatest for our WFH teams!
2FA via Google Login or OKTA.
Easy to onboard external team members (contractors, partners, clients, etc).
Was easily approved by my partner security teams to use alongside their VPN client with no conflicts.
Zero-trust Security - a must have capability these days!
You pay for for User, not Client or Resources - easy to roll out to all devices used by your users.
2FA via Google Login or OKTA.
Easy to onboard external team members (contractors, partners, clients, etc).
Was easily approved by my partner security teams to use alongside their VPN client with no conflicts.
Zero-trust Security - a must have capability these days!
You pay for for User, not Client or Resources - easy to roll out to all devices used by your users.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Linux client was only recently released, so it took a while for my entire engineering team to get on-boarded. Twingate’s customer support has been great, and they expedited Linux support based on our feedback.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Access management for cloud-based resources.
Better security.
No more hassle of maintaining IP allow lists for WFH / remote teams. Some people had their IPs change once a day, this solved a major hassle for our SRE team.
Better security.
No more hassle of maintaining IP allow lists for WFH / remote teams. Some people had their IPs change once a day, this solved a major hassle for our SRE team.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
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You pay for for User, not Client or Resources - easy to roll out to all devices used by your users.
You pay for for User, not Client or Resources - easy to roll out to all devices used by your users.
Made my WFH so much easier, and excellent customer support
What do you like best about the product?
Twingate made it super easy for me to connect to Tableau dashboards, and staging environments.
Was easy to install, faster to use than our old VPN, and doesn't require me to hassle with IP whitelisting across all my devices (home WiFi, mobile device LTE etc.) any more!
Was easy to install, faster to use than our old VPN, and doesn't require me to hassle with IP whitelisting across all my devices (home WiFi, mobile device LTE etc.) any more!
What do you dislike about the product?
I did get stuck while installing Twingate on my Windows laptop, but the support team was quick to jump in and help and I was ready-to-go within a couple of hours.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Simplifying access to staging environments, internal dashboards, and improving security using two-factor authentication to access all our company's cloud resources
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