The network was the problem.
ZTNA is the answer.
InstaSafe ZTNA removes the network from the equation. Users connect straight to the applications they are entitled to — and to nothing else.
- No exposed gateways
- No lateral movement
- Per-application access
- Built for scale
- 25device check types_
- 21policy combinations_
- 0ports answering a scan_
- 202event log types_
Why is everyone replacing VPNs?
VPN alternative
The VPN's product is network membership.
The VPN was a good answer to a 1990s question: how does a travelling employee reach the office network? Extend the network to them. Four structural problems follow from that answer, and no configuration fixes them, because they are the design.
- Network-level accessEvery connected user — and every attacker holding a connected user's credentials — is on the inside. Lateral movement isn't a VPN bug, it's the purchase.
- A visible, high-value targetConcentrators must listen on the public internet, which makes them permanently scannable. Every concentrator CVE opens a race between the vendor's patch and the attacker's script.
- Backhaul latencyAll traffic hairpins through the box regardless of where user and application actually are. Bengaluru user, Mumbai app, Chennai concentrator: everyone loses.
- Hardware economicsCapacity is bought in boxes, sized for peaks, refreshed on cycles. The workforce doubles and it becomes a procurement project.
$ connect erp-core.acme.internal → identity: priya@acme.co · device: bound, cert valid → posture: 25/25 checks pass · patch level ok → tunnel open · 1 resource · ttl 8h $ nmap -sS 10.20.0.0/16 → 0 hosts up · 0 ports answered $ connect payments-admin.acme.internal → denied by policy: role not in payments-admin
A stolen VPN password buys the network. A stolen ZTNA session buys that session.
A VPN lets people onto the network.
InstaSafe lets them into one app.
Same people, same devices, same day. The only thing that changes is what a session can reach once it is connected.
With InstaSafe: identity, device and posture are checked, then the gateway resolves exactly one host for this session — payroll.internal. The other six are not denied at the door; they never appear.With InstaSafe: checks pass, then one host resolves — payroll.internal. The other six never appear.
10.0.0.0/8 — no route offered, nothing to discover
- ▸Access grantedOne application per sessionEntire network segment
- ▸Lateral movementNo path existsInherent
- ▸Internet footprintBlackened — drop-all + SPAConcentrator exposed
- ▸Stolen credentialDead end — MFA + device gateNetwork foothold
- Traffic pathDirect, split-planeBackhaul via box
- ▸Vendor sees dataNever — control plane onlyVia appliance or cloud
- Device health check25 checks, 144 rulesNone or minimal
- Per-user policy21 combinations, per groupCoarse
- Visibility202 event types, replayable sessionsConnection logs
- ScalingConfiguration changeHardware purchase
- DeploymentDays, software onlyWeeks plus appliances
- MFABuilt in, 6 methodsThird-party add-on
Switching is staged, not surgical.
InstaSafe runs alongside the VPN for as long as you need it to. Access policies mirror the AD groups you already maintain, so the access model migrates — not just the tunnel.
- Stage 1Deploy alongside the VPNA pilot group — typically IT plus one business team — moves first. The VPN is untouched.
- Stage 2Expand team by teamPolicies mirror your existing directory groups. Nothing is re-modelled to move.
- Stage 3Decommission per teamThe concentrator goes when the last team is off it. The rollback path stays intact throughout.
No hardware ordered, no network re-architecture, no user retraining — the portal is simpler than the client it replaces.
Replacing a VPN with a vendor that reads everything is the same trade, differently priced.
A cloud security vendor that inspects all your traffic swaps one trust problem for another: now the vendor is inside everything, and a vendor compromise is your compromise. InstaSafe's split plane refuses that trade — the control plane (ours) makes decisions, the data plane (yours) carries traffic directly between your users and your applications.
- Control planeOurs — identity, policy, verdictsAuthentication metadata, policy decisions, exported logs.
- Data planeYours — device to application, directApplication traffic does not transit InstaSafe at all.
- What we can seeThe decision, never the payloadThe full table lives on the Privacy First page.
What leaves the estate with the VPN.
Four line items that stop being separate purchases once access is one platform.
- VPN concentratorsAnd the licensing and refresh cycle attached to them
- The MFA bolt-onSix methods are built into the access decision itself
- Jump-box sprawlRecorded privileged sessions replace the shared hop
- Access spreadsheetsThe portal is the entitlement record
The other five things you will be shown.
Four of them solve adjacent problems. If your driver is replacing the VPN for access to private applications, the category you want is ZTNA — built on SDP.
- Proxy serversHide and route traffic. No identity or device policy.
- RDPRemote control of a machine. Not an access architecture.
- CASBGoverns SaaS usage. Does not deliver private-app access.
- SDPThe architecture family InstaSafe implements — dark infrastructure.
- ZTNAThe category name for SDP-style least-privilege access.
the objection that actually blocks the deal
What happens to the people mid-migration ?
nothing — both run until the last team is off the concentrator↓The network goes.The accessstays.
InstaSafe ZTNA removes the network from the equation. Users connect straight to the applications they are entitled to — and to nothing else.
A breach that stops
A compromised session is one session — architecture, not detection.
Faster, and invisible
Direct connections beat backhaul; blackened gateways beat scanners.
Scales like software
From 200 to 20,000 users without a purchase order for boxes.
Replacing the VPN, answered.
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